Hexagemeron. De paradiso liber. Sermo de ortu Adae. De arbore interdicta. De Cain et Abel liber. [Hexameron. De paradiso. De Cain et Abel. De ortu Adae. De arbore interdicta].

Sanctus AMBROSIUS Mediolanensis

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Lot description

[Milan, A. Zarotus, between 28 March 1476 and 25 May 1477]

Folio: [165 (of 166)] ff., 33-34 ll. (lacking blanck BB10, mss notes on 1st f., contemporary ownership entry on 1st and last p.).

Old binding : overlapping vellum, flat spine covered with paper, with gilt label, blue edges.

Rare Milan incunable edition of the nine homelies on the Six Days of Creation by Saint Ambrose of Milan (340-397), edited by the Augustunian monk Masellus Venia Beneventanus. Printed in roman type. A few rubricated initials. Contemporary reader's notes and marks (cropped). Very good wide-margined copy. Ref. ISTC ia00556000.- GW 1605.- Goff A-556.- Polain 4131.- BMC VI:715.- CIBN A-295.- BSB-Ink A-476.- Not in IDL. Provenance : [Georges Petit].