Live auction - Lot 716

[France - Strasbourg]

HONORIUS AUGUSTODUNENSIS

De praedestinatione et libero arbitrio.

[Strasbourg, C.W., c. 1471]

€ 3.000 / 4.000

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Lot description

Folio: [40] ff., 32 ll. (incl. final blank; tiny wormhole in blank bottom inner margin).

Mod. vellum-covered boards, flat spine. Beautiful wide-margined copy.

Only incunable ed. of a treatise on predestination and free will by the theologian Honorius of Autun (1080-1154), famous for his encyclopedia “Imago mundi”. Formerly described as “[Nürnberg, A. Koberger, c. 1475]”, but attributed to Strasbourg by P. Needham (Brit. Libr. Journal 1980). “C.W.” is tentatively read as “Clas Wencker (?)” or “Conrad Wolfach (?)”. Printed in gothic type. Capital spaces without guide-letters. Nicely rubricated in vivid red. Ref. ISTC ih00323400. - GW 12943. - BMC II:411. - CIBN H-189. - BSB-Ink H-331.050. - Not in Goff, Polain. Prov. Cont. reader’s marks and annotations in red (sl. cropped). - [Georges Petit].

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Lot 716

De praedestinatione et libero arbitrio.

HONORIUS AUGUSTODUNENSIS

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