De statu et rumina monastici ordinis.

4to: [30] ff., 34 ll. (toned, single wormhole in 1st ff.).

Mod. half vellum, marbl. paper boards, blind-titled flat spine. Very good wide-margined copy.

One of 3 undated editions publ. in 1493 (2 in Mainz, 1 in Leipzig] of what was later titled "Liber lugubris", an essay on (the lack of) reforms in monastic orders, written by the humanist Benedictine scholar and abbot Trithemius (1462-1516). Printed in gothic type. Capital spaces. Ref. ISTC it00455000. - Goff T-455. - Polain 3822. - BSB-Ink T-250. - Not in BMC, CIBN. Prov. [Georges Petit].