Live veiling - Lot 853
[Germany - Nürnberg]
Sermones Discipuli.
Nünberg, A. Koberger, 1496
€ 500 / 700
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Folio: [311 (of 314)] ff., 62 ll. (lacking ff. 8 [Tabula], 307 [= Z1] and 314 [final blank]; occ. marg. soiling or dampstaining, title stained).
17th-c. brown calf, spine on 4 raised bands with paper label (rubbed, joints splitting, head repaired). Good copy.
Nürnberg ed. of a sermon collection (1st ed. Cologne 1474) by the German Dominican preacher Herolt (d. 1468), also known as "Discipulus". He collected exemplary stories for use in sermons, one thematic, one of miracles of the Virgin Mary, and one of miracles of the saints. Gothic type, in 2 columns. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Ref. ISTC ih00121000. - GW 12381. - Goff H-121. - IDL 2273. - CIBN H-68. - BSB-Ink H-211. - Not in BMC. Prov. A few old marg. notes. - On verso of title old ownership entry of the Enghien Capuchin convent. - Mod. bookpl.