De officiis.

4to: [110 (of 116)] ff., 27 ll. (but lacking 6 ff. [g1-6 = ff. 49-54]; some minor soiling, stain on [n]2r).

18th-c. half vellum, marbled paper boards, flat spine with red and green gilt labels, red edges. Excellent copy.

Editio princeps of "De officis" of St Ambrose (340-397), one of his major writings promulgating a lofty standard of Christian ethics. Printed in gothic type. Rubricated throughout in red and blue, with many initials extending into the inner margin; longer extensions on g3r and l1r. On a2v (and on a1r of the Gerson text) reddish-brown penwork border decoration with in the centre of the bottom margin a coat-of-arms with initials "c | d". Ref. ISTC ia00558000. - GW 1606. - Goff A-558. - Polain 165. - BMC I:188. - CIBN A-297. - BSB-Ink A-471. Bound with: GERSON, Johannes – De mendicitate spirituali cum orationibus et meditationibus diversis. [Cologne, U. Zel, not after 1472]. 4to: [67 (of 68)] ff., 27 ll. (lacking f. [g3 = 51]). Only separately publ. incunable ed. of the Latin version of "La mendicité spirituelle" by the French theologian Gerson (1363-1429). Printed in gothic type. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Ref. ISTC ig00232000. - GW 10838. - Goff G-232. - Polain 1615. - BMC I:187. - BSB-Ink G-156. - Not in CIBN. Prov. Old reader’s marks and marg. annotations (cropped). - "Sum ex libris B. Mariae Virginis Monasterij Brunbacensis" (f. [a]1r), i.e. the Cistercian monastery at Bronnbach (Wertheim, Main-Tauber-Kreis). - [Georges Petit].