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Angelus de Clavasio.
Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae.

. Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae.

With blue painted initial „A“ at the beginning of the main part. Rubricated throughout. 4 (of 6) unn. leaves, 12 unn. leaves, 369 leaves. 4to. Poor 18th-century boards. – Venice, Nicolaus von Frankfurt, 30 October 1487.

Third edition of Angelo Carletti’s (1411-1495) „Summa“, called „angelica“ according to his first name. The first edition was printed in the year before in Angelo’s native town Chivasso in Piedmont. Angelo, originating from a noble family, entered the Order of Friars Minor at the age of 30. His „Summa de casibus conscientiae“ is a dicitonary of moral theology containing 659 terms who are arranged in alphabetical order. Up to the year 1520, the „Summa“ was published in more than thirty editions. Considered as a statement of Catholic orthodoxy, Angelo’s „Summa“ was banned by Martin Luther as „mehr als teuflisch“ and burned on a public place in Wittenberg in 1520. – Hain/C. 5583; GW 1925; Goff A-715; BMC V, 335. – Old library stamp on first leaf in front. First four leaves incorrectly rebound. Lacking the four leaves containing Hieronymus Torniello’s letter to the author. 18th-century boards getting loose. Occasional dampsatin. – Best.-Nr. 27081

CHF 4800.—
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INCUNABULA. – Catharina Senensis, Saint.
Dialogus Seraphice ac Dive Catharine de Senis cum no(n)nullis aliis orationibus.

. Dialogus Seraphice ac Dive Catharine de Senis cum no(n)nullis aliis orationibus.

Text printed in 2 cols. except leaves 185v to 186v. 40 lines. Text printed in a very small type. With few initials in red. (192) leaves, last blank. Small 8vo. Blind-tooled armorial full vellum over wooden boards with 1 (of 2) brass clasps. Paste-downs with illuminated 14th-century manuscript on vellum. – Brescia, Bernardinus de Misintis, 15. April 1496.

First Latin edition of of Saint Catherine’s of Siena (1347–1380) main spiritual work, the “Book of the Divine Doctrine” (“Libro della divina dottrina“), dictated in 1377 and divided in six „tractatus“. The Latin version goes back to the Dominican Raimundus Capuanus (de Vineis, 1330-1399) and was edited here by Marcus Civilis from Brescia. The edition contains as well a selection of 22 „orationes” by Catherine, also in Latin translation and is concluded by an epistle about Catherine and a poem in praise of the Saint, both by Pope Pius II (i.e. Enea Silvio Piccolomini). – Bound in a sixteenth-century binding from the studio of Jakob Krause and Caspar Meuser with the arms of the Duke Elector Christian I of Saxony and his wife Sofie of Brandenburg. Later provenenca from the Indersdorf Augustiner Chorherrenstift with ms. entry “FF. B.M.V. in Undenstorff”, dated 1656, on title leaf recto. – HC 4693; BMC VII, 990; GW 6226; Goff C-285; BSB-Ink C-194; Bodleian C-123; IA 31.244. – A very handsome, mostly clean and wide-margined copy with only minor worm punctures through the first leaves and some white margins. Few old ms. entries on last blank leaf. Spine restored. – Best.-Nr. 7651

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Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus.
Lucanus cum commento.

. Lucanus cum commento.

61 lines. With some floral initials and with printer’s device at the end. Text framed by commentary in smaller type. (156) leaves. Small folio. 18th-century half vellum. – Venice, Bertolameus de Zanis for Octavianus Scotus, March 31, 1492.

Authoritative late 15th-century Venice edition of Lucanus’ (39-65 A.D.) „Pharsalia“ or „De bello civilis“ with the commentary by Ognibene Bonisoli and additions by Giovanni Britannico. – BMC V, 431; GW M18865; Brunet III, 1197 no. 6. – Wormholes in spine, boards and to white inner margin of the first and last leaves. – Best.-Nr. 27292

CHF 2500.—
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Peraldus (or Paraldus), Gulielmus.
Summa virtutum ac vitiorum.

. Summa virtutum ac vitiorum.

Gothic type, 60 lines over two columns. Initials in red and blue, text rubricated. 14 leaves „Summarium“, 12 leaves „Annotatio“, 174 leaves „De virtutibus“, 142 leaves „De vitiis“. 4to. Contemp. green and blind-stamped leather over wooden 2 clasps. Ms. title on fore-edge. – Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1497.

A fine Basel incunabulum of the moral-theological handbook by the French Dominican Guillaume Peyraut (also Peyrault, c. 1200–1271 in Lyon). Peyraut’s magnum opus, comprising two parts—a treatise on virtues and a treatise on vices—is presented here in its second complete edition (first published in Brescia in 1494). Previously, the two parts had only been printed separately. This copy bears a handwritten ownership note from the 16th century: ‘Samuel Maccius (...) pastor ecclesiae Walpachensis et Clarae Stellae anno 60 (...). Ex hereditate Johan Cunrad Gerhardy P.’ on the inside front cover. Samuel Mack (d. 1607) is documented as a pastor in Waldbach, Württemberg (Hohenlohe district) (see wkgo.de), from where he apparently also looked after the Cistercian convent of Lichtenstern (“clara stella”) near Heilbronn, which was dissolved in 1554. – GW 12055; Hayn/C. 12390; Goff P-86; BSB-Ink G-525; Kaufmann/Nabholz II, 488; Vander Haeghen, Basler Wiegendrucke, 82. – Six repairs to the corners and edges. Old underlining and marginal notes. Extensive old notes in two different handwritings on the title page of the ‘Summarium’. A few water stains. Overall, a very well-preserved copy. – Best.-Nr. 27025

CHF 9900.—
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Thomas a Kempis.
De imitatione Christi. – (Und:) Johannes Gerson. De meditatione cordis.

. De imitatione Christi. – (Und:) Johannes Gerson. De meditatione cordis.

22 Zeilen, Text rubriziert. 165 (v. 168) unn. Bll. Kl.-8vo. Ldr. d. Zt. über drei Bünden, 5 (v. 10) Messingbeschlägen. – Strassburg, (Johann Prüss), 1489.

Strassburger Inkunabeldruck von Thomas von Kempens (1380–1471) Erbauungsbuch von 1418, die erste bei Johann Prüss gedruckte Ausgabe, an die Jean Gersons Traktat „De meditatione cordis“ anschliesst. Der hs. Eintrag zu Beginn der „Tabula“, „Pro Conventu nostro Tachoviensi F. Minor. S. Francisci“ (auf dem letzten Blatt verso wiederholt), weist auf die Herkunft des Büchleins aus dem Franziskanerkloster Tachov (Tachau) in Tschechien hin, das 1950 aufgehoben wurde. – GW M46802; Goff I-22; BMC I, 123; Polain 2058; Hain/C. 9098. – Es fehlen das Titelblatt A1 mit dem auf der Rückseite abgedruckten Holzschnitt sowie die leeren Blätter A7 und A8. Teil des Fussstegs von Blatt B1 weggeschnitten. Leder am Rücken in Resten vorhanden, ebenso ein hs. Rückenschild. Schliesse fehlt. – Best.-Nr. 27059

CHF 3300.—
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