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LEONARDUS DE UTINO (1400-1470). Sermones quadragesimales de legibus dicti. [Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, not after 1475].
The first book printed by Winters, a large copy retaining many deckle edges and contemporary quiring. The Sermones is considered to precede Winter's earliest dated book (1476) by virtue of a rubricator's note dated 1475 in the Munich copy. The author, Leonardus de Utino, was a devoted follower of Thomas Aquinas. He became professor of theology and rector of the Dominican school at Bologna in 1428, and a highly acclaimed preacher who spoke from the pulpit in Venice, Milan and Rome. Leonardus was later prior of the convent of St Dominic at Bologna, and provincial of all Lombardy. H *16116; BSB-Ink L-121; CIBN L-136; Bod-inc L-074; Goff L-144.
Royal folio (405 x 300mm).With final blank. Initials in red, some with reserved white decoration, other rubrication, contemporary manuscript foliation and quiring (a few marginal repairs affecting a1, L5, and other leaves, waterstaining at margins, E2 with old ring mark, quires E-F with heavy stain at outer margins). Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, possibly bound at St. Maximin Benedictine monastery at Trier [see EBDB w002242 for the 'm' tool] covers with large cross and border of double fillets interspersed with small ‘m‘ and Mary on a crescent moon, metal clasps and cornerpieces (rebacked, new pastedowns, somewhat worn and with old repairs, some metal pieces missing). Provenance: Trier, monastery of St Marien ad Martyres (contemporary ownership inscription and summary of content on blank recto of a1, further inscriptions).
The first book printed by Winters, a large copy retaining many deckle edges and contemporary quiring. The Sermones is considered to precede Winter's earliest dated book (1476) by virtue of a rubricator's note dated 1475 in the Munich copy. The author, Leonardus de Utino, was a devoted follower of Thomas Aquinas. He became professor of theology and rector of the Dominican school at Bologna in 1428, and a highly acclaimed preacher who spoke from the pulpit in Venice, Milan and Rome. Leonardus was later prior of the convent of St Dominic at Bologna, and provincial of all Lombardy. H *16116; BSB-Ink L-121; CIBN L-136; Bod-inc L-074; Goff L-144.
Royal folio (405 x 300mm).With final blank. Initials in red, some with reserved white decoration, other rubrication, contemporary manuscript foliation and quiring (a few marginal repairs affecting a1, L5, and other leaves, waterstaining at margins, E2 with old ring mark, quires E-F with heavy stain at outer margins). Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, possibly bound at St. Maximin Benedictine monastery at Trier [see EBDB w002242 for the 'm' tool] covers with large cross and border of double fillets interspersed with small ‘m‘ and Mary on a crescent moon, metal clasps and cornerpieces (rebacked, new pastedowns, somewhat worn and with old repairs, some metal pieces missing). Provenance: Trier, monastery of St Marien ad Martyres (contemporary ownership inscription and summary of content on blank recto of a1, further inscriptions).
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