Live auction - Lot 665
[Biblical commentary]
Enarrationes quas Cathenam vere Auream dicunt, in quatuor Evangelia [...].
Paris, [J. Savetier for] P. Regnault & J. Petit, 1540
Hammer price: €
240
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Folio: cccxl [= 340]-[3] ff. (ff. 234 and 239 missing, both substituted in old handwriting; toned, occ. margi. soiling or paper flaws, a few marginal tears i.a. in ff. 202, 243, 302).
Old blind-st. calf over wood, (later) spine with raised bands and morocco label, vellum tabs (front cover loose, rubbed, old repairs, joints split, head and tail def., clasps and catches gone).
Repr. of the 1537 Savetier ed. of Thomas Aquina’s Gospel commentary. Woodcut marks on title (esp. Petit’s). Title printed in red and black within woodcut border. Text in 2 col. Nicely rubricated in yellow throughout. A number of large initials with fine old hand-colouring.
Ref. BP16 108689. - Moreau V:1962.
Prov. Old ms. entry on title (partly erased).