26th Jul, 2017 10:00

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Lot 44
 
Lot 44 - GERSON, Jean (1363-1429). Opera. Secunda pars....

GERSON, Jean (1363-1429). Opera. Secunda pars. [Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1494]. Folio. 258 ff., Gothic type, text on double column, 53 lines plus headlines, full-page woodcut to verso of title representing a Christian pilgrim, rubricated with initials in red or blue (a few with marginal flourishes) and printed guides. (Light age yellowing and browning, some spotting, lower blank margin of leaves lightly water stained, worm holed in throughout, marginal repair on title page). 17th-century brown calf, title lettered in gilt on spine ruled in compartments, pastedowns from discarded ms. (Covers heavily rubbed). Jean Gerson was a French scholar, reformer and Chancellor of the University of Paris. His collected works were printed ten times in Cologne, Strasbourg, Nuremberg, Basel and Paris. This edition is by Peter Schott and Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg. Not in ISTC. Goff G189; HC 7625; BMC i 152; Bod-inc G-088; GW 10717. Prov: French Society of Jesus (bookplate); ms. marginalia on recto of C1.

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