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Éditions du XVI
e
s.
auctions for more than 20 years. VD16 just lists one other copy but without collation and
location. Fifth (?) edition of this collection of Gospels and Epistles with parallel text in Greek
and Latin. Apparently the first edition was published in 1549 and was followed by several
others, all printed by Brylinger or his heirs. Printer’s mark of Bryling on the title-page.
# USTC 654780 (ed. 1559); # VD16 ZV 5566 (id.); # not in Adams, Machiels, Soltész, KVK.
Bound with
: VERREPT, Simon.- Precationum piarum enchiridion [...]. Editio ultima,
auctior et castigatior [...]. Antverpiae, apud Joannem Bellerum (excudebat Aegidius
Radaeus, expensis Joannis Belleri), 1574. [36]-519-[20] pp. (light dampstains). Collection
of prayers (1
st
ed. : 1565) by the Belgian theologian Verrept (1522-1598) illustrated with
17 woodcuts repeated in the text. Title-page and feasts calender printed in black and red;
some ornemental initials letters and printer’s mark at the end. # USTC 411735; # Biogr. nat.
XXVI-603/610; # not in Adams, Soltész, Machiels, BT.
¶ Second (si pas unique) exemplaire connu de la 5e (?) édition de cette collection d’évangiles et lettres
avec texte en grec et latin. Relié avec un choix de prières du théologien Verrept illustré de 17 in texto
répétés. Pleine basane du 19e s. (mouill., pet. restauration sur le titre des Evangelia, rel. frottée, rogné
parfois avec pet. manques).
284 – (Religion)
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Ens. 2 ouvr. en 1 vol. in-f°
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FABRI, Johannes.- Sermones
fructuosissimi, cu[n]ctis ecclesiae catholicae defensoribus, ac doctrinae eva[n]-
gelicae professoribus, summopere necessarii [...].
(Coloniae, in officina literaria honesti civi Petri Quentel, 1537 (mense februario)).
In-f° : [4 engr. title incl.]-CXLVII-[11] lvs (fore-edge of the title-page short, stamp and handwritten
p
rovenance
crossed out on the title-page, nudity of the children hidden in the initial letters, some parts of the copy slightly
yellowed, rare stains or dampstains, rare tears without loss).
Contemporary binding : sprinkled sheepskin, ribbed spine (wormholes, scratches, upper joint partly split, one
joint broken, upper flyleaf lacking, trimmed).
Est.
:
200/ 250 €
First edition
of this postincunabulum gathering a collection of
sermons on the Eucharist, patience, against the Anabaptists
and on the victory against the Turkish during the Siege of
Vienna in 1529. With afterwards an oration to Margaret of
Austria (1480-1530), Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands,
and the “Triumphus beati Job propheatae summi Dei [...]” by
the theologian Gratius Ortwinus (1480?-1542). The doctor in
civil and canon law Fabri (1478-1541), an Erasmus’ friend,
became bishop of Vienna in 1530. Work in a neat typography
with initial letters, mostly historiated figuring children from
the “Alphabet of children” by Hans Holbein the Younger (?)
and one large figuring the Crucifixion with Charles V and
Ferdinand I kneeled and the Evangelists in the corners.
Typographical title within a frame after Hans Holbein the
Younger (?) depicting in the upper part the Transfiguration,
the Evangelists, 4 Church Fathers (Gregory, Ambrosius,
Hieronymus and Augustinus) and below the portraits of
the Emperors Charles V and Ferdinand I with the two coat-of-arms of the Holy Roman
Empire (with the monocephalic eagle and the double-headed) and the arms of the seven
electorates.
# Adams F-67; # Machiels F-15; # Contemporaries of Erasmus II-5/8; # USTC 626167; #
VD16 F 234; # not in Soltész.
Bound with
: [REUCHLIN, Johannes.- Primi graecae et sacrae hebraicae linguae autoris
lexicon hebraicum, & in hebraeorum grammaticen commentarii lucubrationes Sebastiani
Munsteri opera absolutae sunt [...]]. (Basileae, per Henricum Petrum, mense martio anno