Description:
Homiliarius Doctorum de Tempore et de Sanctis a Paulo Diacono Collectus, edited by Johann Ulrich Surgant (c. 1450-1503). Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 30 September 1493. Folio, title page with full-page woodcut depicting the church fathers, the work in two parts; text printed in gothic type in two columns throughout, initials added by hand in red and blue throughout; contemporary manuscript ownership inscription inside front board, additional inscription dated 1533 at top of title, other marginalia in text; bound in full contemporary alum-tawed leather, tooled in blind on both boards and spine with original catches, lacking clasps and straps, rebacked, later brass half-round embellishments added to both boards (likely added at the time of the binding repair),original chevron endbands worked in red, white, and blue thread still intact at head and tail; some worming, the whole binding stained brown, again likely at the time of the rebacking, 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.
a-z6, aa-cc6, dd-ee8, A-L6, M10.
Goff H317; HC 8791*; GfT 1003; Schr 4898; Schramm XXI p.28; Pell Ms 9051 (8897 bis); Pr 7685; BMC III 770; BSB-Ink H-325; GW 12929.
Estimate $3,000-5,000
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