Live auction - Lot 952
[Neolatin poetry - Antwerp imprint]
De Christi Iesu Servatoris nostri vita ac morte, diuersa insignium inter Christianos poetarum opuscula no(n) minus pia quam erudita.
Antwerp, S. Cock, March 1536
€ 400 / 600
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Lot description
8vo: [44] ff. (1st ff. stained, some minor thumbing and soiling).
20th-c. boards covered with vellum paper, flat spine. Good copy.
Rare collection (5th copy recorded) of religious verse, esp. hymns, elegies and prayers, by 3 Neolatin poets: a Cornelius (Crocus?), Joannes Fernandus (fl. 1490), Rodolphus Langius (1438-1519). Introductory poem by Faustus Andrelinus (1462-1518). Final poem by Johannes Baptista Cantalicius (d. 1514). Woodcut tail-piece on title. Full-page woodcut (Crucifixion) at the end. Printed in italics. Ref. NKr 1631. - Pettegree NB 9130 & 16670. - Not in Adams, Oberlé, STC Dutch (BL). Prov. Old name at the end.
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