(Religion, Bible) - NICOLAS de Hannappes.- Exemplorum omnium sacrosanctae scripturae liber absolutissimus [...]. (Tubingae [Tünbigen], apud Huldericum Mohartum, 1533). Small in-8° : [10]-263-[1 bl.] lvs (dampstains passim, some large, slightly...
Estimation :
150 / 200
Description
browned, wormholes passim, margins reinforced/repaired in the beginning, rare marginal handwritten notes). 17th Century binding : marbled calf, gilt decorated ribbed spine with gilt monograms, red edges (wormholes, joints partly split, handwritten notes on the upper flyleaf repaired in the margin, some edges and corners dulled, slightly trimmed).
First edition under the title "Exemplorum omnium sacrosanctae scripturae" of the famous and very popular work "Virtutum vitiorumque exempla [...]" called the "Biblia pauperum" (1st ed. : 1477). This book is a compilation of extracts from the Bible (on malediction, homicides, abstinence, adoration, pauperty, miracles...), imitating Valerius Maximus, giving examples to pursuit a proper Christian life. Typographical title within a woodcut frame figuring on the sides Saint Paul and Saint Pieter, above the conversion of Saint Paul and below pilgrims near a fontain with a man showing the Holy Scriptures. The French Dominican Nicolas de Hannappes (c. 1225-1291) was the last Occidental Patriarch of Jerusalem. # Soltész H-32; # USTC 655235; # VD16 N-1537; # not in Adams nor in Machiels. ▲ Provenance : monastery of Saint John above the Rock or Svaty Jan pod Skalo, near Prague (handwritten mention and supra libros). T Première édition sous ce titre des "Virtutum vitiorumque exempla", du patriarche de Jérusalem de Hannappes. Il s'agit d'une compilation d'extraits de la Bible donnant des exemples à suivre pour vivre en bon chrétien. Plein veau du 17e s. (mouill., trous et galeries de vers passim, marges renforcées ou restaurées au début, mors part. fendus).
First edition under the title "Exemplorum omnium sacrosanctae scripturae" of the famous and very popular work "Virtutum vitiorumque exempla [...]" called the "Biblia pauperum" (1st ed. : 1477). This book is a compilation of extracts from the Bible (on malediction, homicides, abstinence, adoration, pauperty, miracles...), imitating Valerius Maximus, giving examples to pursuit a proper Christian life. Typographical title within a woodcut frame figuring on the sides Saint Paul and Saint Pieter, above the conversion of Saint Paul and below pilgrims near a fontain with a man showing the Holy Scriptures. The French Dominican Nicolas de Hannappes (c. 1225-1291) was the last Occidental Patriarch of Jerusalem. # Soltész H-32; # USTC 655235; # VD16 N-1537; # not in Adams nor in Machiels. ▲ Provenance : monastery of Saint John above the Rock or Svaty Jan pod Skalo, near Prague (handwritten mention and supra libros). T Première édition sous ce titre des "Virtutum vitiorumque exempla", du patriarche de Jérusalem de Hannappes. Il s'agit d'une compilation d'extraits de la Bible donnant des exemples à suivre pour vivre en bon chrétien. Plein veau du 17e s. (mouill., trous et galeries de vers passim, marges renforcées ou restaurées au début, mors part. fendus).
