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GERSON, Johannes (1363-1429). Opera , edited by Peter Schott and Johann Geiler von Kayserberg. Strassburg: Martin Flach, 13 December 1494 (parts I-II), 11 August 1494 (part III). 3 volumes, chancery 2° (283 x 190mm). Gothic types, double column, one line of woodcut music on III: Gg2v, one full-page woodcut (Schreiber 4104) repeated four times, the cut in vol. III fully coloured in shades of brown, green and red, rubricator's title on 1:a2r; red initials, a few with red pen-flourishing, rubricated. (Without final blank in each volume, some browning and staining, title leaves strengthened at inner margins and with mends to blank areas.) Modern morocco spines over new bare oak boards, by Philip Dusel of Berkeley, California. Provenance : erased modern inkstamp to titles -- Ned J. Nakles (sale Christie's New York, 17 April 2000, lot 25). Fifth edition. One of the most influential theologians of the fifteenth century, Gerson worked to resolve the Great Schism and played an important role at the Council of Constance. His extensive writings on ecclesiology, reform, pastoral care and mysticism were very popular during the later Middle Ages and were frequently printed, both as individual treatises and in collected editions. The woodcut which accompanies each volume of Flach's edition was first printed in Johann Prüss's 1488 Strassburg edition of Gerson's works and was copied by Kesler in his 1489 Basel edition. HC *7625; BMC I, 152; BSB-Ink. G-186; GW 10717; Schreiber 4104; Goff G-189. (3)