Live auction - Lot 730
[Italy - Florence]
Sermones.
Florence, A. di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 23 August 1481
€ 1.200 / 1.500
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Lot description
Folio: [89] ff., 33 ll. (initial blank missing; some marginal spotting or staining).
Old vellum-covered boards, ink-titled spine with 3 raised bands (head def.). Very good wide-margined copy.
Editio princeps of the Latin version by the Camaldolese monk Ambrose Traversari (1386-1439) of the sermons of Ephrem the Syrian (306-373). Printed in roman type. Rubricated with 4/5-line initials in blue or red.
Ref. ISTC ie00045000. - GW 9331. - Goff E-45. - Polain 1401. - IGI 3679. - BMC VI:636. - BSB-Ink E-69. - Not in CIBN.
Prov. Old reader’s marks. - Old ownership entry on f. 1r (deleted). - [Georges Petit].