Live auction - Lot 985

[Biblical commentary - Passion]

GULIELMUS III ARVERNUS

Postilla Guillermi super Epistolas et Euangelia per totius anni circu[m]itum, De tempore, sanctis et pro defunctis […] [and] Directorium in d[omi]nice passionis articulos [and] Daniel Agricola, Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi [...].

Basel, A. Petri, 31 July 1513 (col. Pt. 3: 31 July 1514)

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Lot description

4to: [4]-186-[4]-39-[1] ff. (min. toning, general title soiled, old tear in title repaired, a single wormhole).

Contemp. blind-st. pigskin over wood, bevelled edges, spine with raised bands, metal clasps and catches (sm. def. at head and tail, 1 clasp gone, some tiny worming). Very good copy.

Extensive commentary on the Gospel readings in the liturgical year by the Paris bishop Gulielmus III Arvernus (1180-1249), with an additional treatise on the Lord’s Passion by the Franciscan Daniel Meyer (Agrcola, 1490-1540). Large title woodcut. 98 (Pt. I) and 20 (Pt. III) sm. woodcuts in-text. General title printed in red an black. Text in Gothic type of various sizes. Pt. II with title border by Urs Graf. Pt. III (Agricola) with the colophon date "M.D.XIIII." instead of "M.D.XIII." as described by VD16 and shown in the digitized BSB copy. Numerous contemp. marginal annotations in 1st work.
Ref. VD16 E-4385. - Adams G-1599.
Bound with: Biel, Gabriel - Passionis d[omi]nice sermo historialis […]. [Hagenau], H. Gran for J. Rynman, 28 June 1515. 4to: [55 (of 56)] ff. (final bl. missing). Part IV, complete in itself, of the "Sermones d[omi]nicales" of G. Biel (1418-1495). Title within elaborate woodcut border. Printed in 2 col., in Gothic type. Ref. VD16 B-5377 (Sermones: B-5399). - Not in Adams.
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Lot 985

Postilla Guillermi super Epistolas et Euangelia per totius anni circu[m]itum, De tempore, sanctis et pro defunctis […] [and] Directorium in d[omi]nice passionis articulos [and] Daniel Agricola, Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi [...].

GULIELMUS III ARVERNUS

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