Sermones de tempore et de sanctis una cum homiliis et epistolis [...].

BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS, O. Cist.

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Venice, J. Emericus de Spira for L. Giunta, 12 March 1495

4to: [4]-225 (= 227) ff., 48 ll. (lacking final blank; some marginal soiling, a few ff. spotted or stained, hole in top margin of last text f. touching headline).

Old limp vellum, ink-titled spine, sp. edges. Good copy.

Later ed. (1st 1481) of the sermons for the liturgical year preached by the founder of the Cistercian Order, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153). Large woodcut on title. Woodcut mark on title (Giunta) and at the end (Scotus). Title on A1r printed in red, with woodcut border in top and inner margin. Printed in gothic type, in 2 cols. Ref. ISTC ib00440000 . - GW 3945. - Goff B-440. - Polain 4084 (this copy). - BMC V:540. - CIBN B-266. - BSB-Ink B-318.050. - Essling 806. - Sander 967. Prov. "Est Monasterij Sancti Petri de Perusia" (Perugia) (ms. ownership entry on A1r and stamps on A1r and final p.). - Old ownership entry on front flyleaf (deleted). - [Georges Petit].