![BONAVENTURA, SAINT (1221-1274). Opuscula. — OCTAVIANUS DE MARTINIS. Oratio in vitam et merita S. Bonaventurae. — JOHANNES FRANCISCUS DE PAVINIS. Relatio circa canonizationem Bonaventurae. — ROBERTUS [Caracciolus?]. Sermo de laudibus Bonaventurae. — POPE SIXTUS IV. Bulla canonizationis. Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1495.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0111_000(bonaventura_saint_opuscula_octavianus_de_martinis_oratio_in_vitam_et_m095906).jpg?w=1)
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BONAVENTURA, SAINT (1221-1274). Opuscula. — OCTAVIANUS DE MARTINIS. Oratio in vitam et merita S. Bonaventurae. — JOHANNES FRANCISCUS DE PAVINIS. Relatio circa canonizationem Bonaventurae. — ROBERTUS [Caracciolus?]. Sermo de laudibus Bonaventurae. — POPE SIXTUS IV. Bulla canonizationis. Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1495.
A wide-margined copy preserving a few deckle-edges. Fifth edition of the collected shorter writings, originally published in 1484-85. HC *3468; GW 4648; BMC I 144; Bod-inc B-418; CIBN B-616; ISTC ib00928000; Goff B-928.
2 volumes, chancery folio (286 x 203mm). 380 leaves, with the last blank in vol. 1; 370 leaves, with the last blank in vol. 2. 3 full page woodcuts, Initials in red, vol. 2 with a fragment of a bifolium from a 15th-century German manuscript of Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea, in Latin, the text in the present fragment from the life of St Nicholas (some worming in first and last few quires mostly, light finger-soiling). Contemporary Ulm blindstamped calf over wooden boards from the Wegen monastery active 1477-1531 [EBDB w000059; Kyriss 33], vol. 1 with manuscript title label on upper board (without clasps, rubbed, vol. 1 with early repairs to spine ends, vol. 2 rebacked, wooden boards renewed). Provenance: Altomünster monastery (inscription dated 1542) – Munich, Royal Library (‘Duplum’).
A wide-margined copy preserving a few deckle-edges. Fifth edition of the collected shorter writings, originally published in 1484-85. HC *3468; GW 4648; BMC I 144; Bod-inc B-418; CIBN B-616; ISTC ib00928000; Goff B-928.
2 volumes, chancery folio (286 x 203mm). 380 leaves, with the last blank in vol. 1; 370 leaves, with the last blank in vol. 2. 3 full page woodcuts, Initials in red, vol. 2 with a fragment of a bifolium from a 15th-century German manuscript of Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea, in Latin, the text in the present fragment from the life of St Nicholas (some worming in first and last few quires mostly, light finger-soiling). Contemporary Ulm blindstamped calf over wooden boards from the Wegen monastery active 1477-1531 [EBDB w000059; Kyriss 33], vol. 1 with manuscript title label on upper board (without clasps, rubbed, vol. 1 with early repairs to spine ends, vol. 2 rebacked, wooden boards renewed). Provenance: Altomünster monastery (inscription dated 1542) – Munich, Royal Library (‘Duplum’).
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