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GREGORIUS I (540-604). Moralia, sive Expositio in Job. Additions by Dominicus de Dominicis. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 31 October 1495.
A signed binding by Denis Toussaint, Parisian bookseller and bookbinder active between 1488 and 1529 (see Renouard, Impr. Parisiens p. 95; Gid/Laffite, Les Reliures à plaques françaises p. 319, fig. 217). The Moralia on Job was among Gregory the Great's most popular works, offering practical wisdom for Christian living rather than complex theology. The preface of the Bishop of Brescia, with its reference to the printing of 300 copies by three men in three months, derives from the edition printed at Rome in 1475. HC *7932; GW 11433; BMC VIII, 29; BSB-Ink G-319; Goff G431.
Chancery folio (282 x 205mm). First 2 quires with paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. With both blank leaves, T10 and bb6; printer's device on bb5v. (Title slightly soiled, some light dampstains, mostly marginal but affecting text from quire T to end, marginal worming up to quire d and from quire Q to end). Contemporary Parisian calf over wooden boards by Denis Toussaint, the central plaque with vertical roles and an outer foliate roll incorporating dragons and lettered banderoles with binder’s name at foot, large rosettes in the outer border, spine with diagonal fillets and remains of label (some wear with loss of leather and board, small wormholes, without clasps). Provenance: Library of the Franciscans at the convent of Maria of Mahingen (label on title verso, and a loose label dated 1688 in manuscript).
A signed binding by Denis Toussaint, Parisian bookseller and bookbinder active between 1488 and 1529 (see Renouard, Impr. Parisiens p. 95; Gid/Laffite, Les Reliures à plaques françaises p. 319, fig. 217). The Moralia on Job was among Gregory the Great's most popular works, offering practical wisdom for Christian living rather than complex theology. The preface of the Bishop of Brescia, with its reference to the printing of 300 copies by three men in three months, derives from the edition printed at Rome in 1475. HC *7932; GW 11433; BMC VIII, 29; BSB-Ink G-319; Goff G431.
Chancery folio (282 x 205mm). First 2 quires with paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. With both blank leaves, T10 and bb6; printer's device on bb5v. (Title slightly soiled, some light dampstains, mostly marginal but affecting text from quire T to end, marginal worming up to quire d and from quire Q to end). Contemporary Parisian calf over wooden boards by Denis Toussaint, the central plaque with vertical roles and an outer foliate roll incorporating dragons and lettered banderoles with binder’s name at foot, large rosettes in the outer border, spine with diagonal fillets and remains of label (some wear with loss of leather and board, small wormholes, without clasps). Provenance: Library of the Franciscans at the convent of Maria of Mahingen (label on title verso, and a loose label dated 1688 in manuscript).
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