Live auction - Lot 808
[Germany - Cologne]
Vita Udonis.
[Cologne, Printer of Augustinus, "De fide", c. 1473]
€ 750 / 1.000
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Lot description
4to: [6] ff., 26 ll. (some soiling, sm. tear in fore-edge margin f.4).
Mod. limp leather (sl. tanned and warping). Very good copy.
Short "Life of Udo", complete in itself, but mostly found as Pt. 2 of Innocentius III "Liber de contemptu mundi". It is also called "Hystoria horrenda" or "Miserabilis vita Udonis episcopi". In various adaptations Udo is identified with an anonymous cleric in Saxony, with an imaginary Archbishop Udo of Magdeburg, or with Eudo, Bishop of Hildesheim, i.e. Udo von Gleichen-Einhausen, 1079-1114. Printed in gothic type. Rubricated title and 2-line initial. Ref. ISTC ii00083000. - Goff I-83. - Polain 2103. - BMC I:233. - CIBN I-38. - BSB-Ink I-173. Prov. [Georges Petit].