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PETRUS DE PALUDE (c.280-1342). Sermones Thesauri novi de sanctis. Strasbourg: Martin Flach (printer of Strasbourg), 1493.
A late medieval theologian in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas, Petrus de Palude was appointed titular patriarch of Jerusalem in 1329, and bishop of Couserans in 1337. This collection of his sermons was extremely popular; WorldCat records 85 editions between 1484 and 1515. This copy of the 1493 edition by Martin Flach retains its still handsome contemporary blind-tooled binding from an Augsburg workshop. H 5428; BSB-Ink S-335; CIBN(+Add) P-255; Goff P-516.
Chancery folio (276 x 189mm). Capital spaces with guide letters. Opening initial R on c1r in green on a a gold ground, flourishes in three colours added at foot of page, other capitals supplied in red. With blank b6; without final blank. (Faint browning, light spotting and marginal soiling, occasional margin wormholes, a few waterstains). Contemporary blind-panelled calf from an Augsburg workshop [Kyriss 84, plate 171], tooled with a hunting roll, rosette, star and other tools, title tooled on front cover, spine with palmettes, metal center- and cornerpieces, without clasps (some wear, mostly at spine and edges). Provenance: Robert Raydl, Dominican (1498 inscription recording the sale of the book to him by a pastor Christophor of ?Gravenkirchen) -- marginalia in other hands.
A late medieval theologian in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas, Petrus de Palude was appointed titular patriarch of Jerusalem in 1329, and bishop of Couserans in 1337. This collection of his sermons was extremely popular; WorldCat records 85 editions between 1484 and 1515. This copy of the 1493 edition by Martin Flach retains its still handsome contemporary blind-tooled binding from an Augsburg workshop. H 5428; BSB-Ink S-335; CIBN(+Add) P-255; Goff P-516.
Chancery folio (276 x 189mm). Capital spaces with guide letters. Opening initial R on c1r in green on a a gold ground, flourishes in three colours added at foot of page, other capitals supplied in red. With blank b6; without final blank. (Faint browning, light spotting and marginal soiling, occasional margin wormholes, a few waterstains). Contemporary blind-panelled calf from an Augsburg workshop [Kyriss 84, plate 171], tooled with a hunting roll, rosette, star and other tools, title tooled on front cover, spine with palmettes, metal center- and cornerpieces, without clasps (some wear, mostly at spine and edges). Provenance: Robert Raydl, Dominican (1498 inscription recording the sale of the book to him by a pastor Christophor of ?Gravenkirchen) -- marginalia in other hands.
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