Beschreibung:

Dupuis (François) Cathena Aurea Super Psalmos , collation: AA 8 BB 4 a-y 8 A-Q 8 R 6 , double column, Gothic type, printed in red and black, title with woodcut printer's device at foot, full-page woodcut of King David at his harp to verso of BB4, handsome woodcut cribl é initials, early ink marginalia, p 3&4 upper corners torn away, with loss of part of a side-note on p 3 , wormholes within text, some staining, mostly marginal, contemporary blind-stamped panelled calf over wooden boards, rebacked in 20th century calf, some loss of calf on covers, corners repaired, 4to (253 x 176mm.), Paris, Jean Petit , March, 1520. ⁂ First edition of these commentaries on the Psalms, by the Carthusian Dupuis, handsomely printed in Paris. Rare at auction. Literature: Adams P2294 (under Puteo).