Incunabula - Lot 591

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Incunabula - Lot 591
Incunabula BUCH (Joannes) Speculum Exemplorum Omnibus Christicolis Salubriter Inspiciendum ut exemplis discant disciplinam - Colophon (T6 verso) : Ad laudem [et] gloriam sempiterne individueque Trinitatis, beatissime Marie Virginis, omnium sanctorum [et] angelorum. Finitum est [et] completum hoc speculum exemplorum in ciuitate Argentina anno Domini. M.CCCCLXXXVII. In die Sancti Adriani martyris gloriosi in Martio. In folio : 1-4 a-c d-n o p-v x-y z A B-E F-G H I-K L M-N O P-S T7. Text on two columns, 47 lines per page, red lettering, chapter beginnings underlined in red, old notes in margins, some drawings or acronyms. Light staining on a few leaves. Contemporary saddle leather, spine ribbed and decorated, handwritten title on cream paper, cold decoration on boards and spine, metal clasps with vellum straps (one clasp missing). A fine copy. The collection, composed almost entirely of stories of the devout type, divided into 10 distinctions: - I/ Dialogi of Gregory the Great (75) and letters of Peter Damian (37) - II/ Vitae patrum of St. Jerome (211) and the Collationes Patrum (12), Instituti sanctorum patrum (13) ex Climaco (14) - III/ Historia ecclesiastica of Bede the Venerable (9), IV/ Speculum historiale by Vincent de Beauvais (64) and Historia ecclesiastica tripartitia (18) - V/ Bonum universale de apibus by Thomas de Cantimpré - VI/ Dialogus miraculorum by Vincent de Beauvais (64) VI/ Dialogus miraculorum of Caesarius of Heisterbach (103) - VII/ various lives of saints - VIII/ other lives of saints - IX/ ex diversorum auctorem scriptis (218) - X/ stories that the author learned or read in books in the Thioise language.
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