Live auction - Lot 1220

ERASMUS, Desiderius

Precatio dominica, digesta in septe[m] parteis, iuxta septem dies.

(Deventer, W. Zuseler), 1524

€ 2.000 / 3.000

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8vo: [20] ff. (minor soiling, some contemp. ms. annot.).

Modern vellum (minor soiling).

Extr. rare copy of the Deventer edition of Erasmus' commentary on the Lord's Prayer, composed at the request of the German diplomat and merchant Jostus Ludovicus Decius (1485-1545), to whom the text is dedicated (Allen 1393). Title printed within an elaborate woodcut border, that recalls those used by Froben in Basel. Zuseler, who had Lutheran sympathies, was the stepbrother of the printer Albert Pafraet and ran his printing business from 1523 till 1525.
Ref. NK 2968. - USTC 420910 = Pettegree (NB) 11390 (1 copy in Italy). - EOL 5474. - Not in Adams, STC Low Countries (BL), BnF, etc.

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Lot 1220

Precatio dominica, digesta in septe[m] parteis, iuxta septem dies.

ERASMUS, Desiderius

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