Live auction - Lot 1120

[Postincunable - Lyon]

SIBYLLA, Bartolomeo

Speculum peregrinarum questionum tres decades complectens in quibus varie questiones de animabus rationalibus in conjuncto et separatis [...].

Lyon, J. Myt for C. Fradin, 26 November 1516

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Lot description

8vo: [8]-cclv [= 255]-[1 bl.] ff. (missing 39 ff.: 34-39, 129-137, 193-208, 217-224; fore-edge margin dampstained, 1st and last ff. with fore-edge frayed, worming in bl. bottom margin).

Contemp. blind-ruled limp vellum, flat spine (loosening, hole in front cover, endpapers part. gone). Working copy, s.w.a.f.

Early ed. (1st Rome 1493) of a treatise by B. Sibylla, Prior of the Dominican convent in Monopoli near Bari. With theological questions concerning good angels and bad, fate vs. human will, the efficacy of invocations to call up devils, etc. Sibylla also discusses herbs, charms and written words as symbols, and he cites Hermes Trismegistus, Apuleius, Ptolomy, Seneca and Aulus Gellius. In his prefatory dedication to Alfonso of Aragon, he makes particular reference to the magnificent library of Alfonso’s father, Ferdinand. Printed in Gothic type. Title in red & black.
Ref. SvGültlingen II:125:40 = Baudrier XI:122. - Not in Adams.
Prov. Old monastic entries on front flyleaf and title. - Collector’s stamp.

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Lot 1120

Speculum peregrinarum questionum tres decades complectens in quibus varie questiones de animabus rationalibus in conjuncto et separatis [...].

SIBYLLA, Bartolomeo

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