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BANDELLUS DE CASTRONOVO, Vincentius (1435-1506). Libellus recollectorius auctoritatum de veritate conceptionis beatae virginis Mariae. Milan: Christophorus Valdarfer, 1475.
Median 4° (221 x 161mm). Gothic types. Opening 12-line initial in azure, other spaces blank. (Occasional light marginal staining.) Early 20th-century brown calf. Provenance: a few early marginal annotations -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 17).
FIRST EDITION. 'The author's name is not given in the book, which has also been ascribed to Jacobus de Susato (Soest), but it is shown to be Bandello's work by the réchauffé dedicated by him to the Duke of Ferrara under the title De singulari puritate et praerogatiua conceptionis Saluatoris nostri and first printed by Rugerius at Bologna in 1481' (BMC). The author, a professor of theology and, in 1501, general of the Dominican order, was one of the century's most violent opponents of the Immaculate Conception. His opposition was brought to an end by Sixtus IV's bull of 1483. H *2352; GW 3237; BMC VI, 726; BSB-Ink B-33; Bod-inc B-022; Goff B-48.
Median 4° (221 x 161mm). Gothic types. Opening 12-line initial in azure, other spaces blank. (Occasional light marginal staining.) Early 20th-century brown calf. Provenance: a few early marginal annotations -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 17).
FIRST EDITION. 'The author's name is not given in the book, which has also been ascribed to Jacobus de Susato (Soest), but it is shown to be Bandello's work by the réchauffé dedicated by him to the Duke of Ferrara under the title De singulari puritate et praerogatiua conceptionis Saluatoris nostri and first printed by Rugerius at Bologna in 1481' (BMC). The author, a professor of theology and, in 1501, general of the Dominican order, was one of the century's most violent opponents of the Immaculate Conception. His opposition was brought to an end by Sixtus IV's bull of 1483. H *2352; GW 3237; BMC VI, 726; BSB-Ink B-33; Bod-inc B-022; Goff B-48.