JACOBUS DE VORAGINE. Opus sermonum de sanctis . Augsburg: Hermann Kästlin, 10 April 1484. Chancery 2 o (298 x 197 mm). 206 leaves. 42 lines and headline, double column. Gothic type 2:105. Three- to eight-line initial spaces. (Some occasional worming, catching a few letters, some mold-spotting in the first quire.) 19th-century blind-tooled calf (rebacked, some wear). Provenance : faint monastic inscription on first leaf -- Robert Buchanan Stewart (bookplate) -- George Dunn (Woolley Hall bookplate) -- sold Sotheby's London, 16 October 1979, lot 229. An early edition of the cycle of sermons for the feasts of the saints by Jacobus de Voragine. Herman Kästlin printed in Augsburg from 1479 to 1485. No more than ten books and some broadsides from his press are extant, and all are quite rare. C 6550; BMC II, 362 (IB. 6241); BSB-Ink. I-107; CIBN J-126; Harvard/Walsh 593; Pr 1753; Goff J-188.
JACOBUS DE VORAGINE. Opus sermonum de sanctis . Augsburg: Hermann Kästlin, 10 April 1484. Chancery 2 o (298 x 197 mm). 206 leaves. 42 lines and headline, double column. Gothic type 2:105. Three- to eight-line initial spaces. (Some occasional worming, catching a few letters, some mold-spotting in the first quire.) 19th-century blind-tooled calf (rebacked, some wear). Provenance : faint monastic inscription on first leaf -- Robert Buchanan Stewart (bookplate) -- George Dunn (Woolley Hall bookplate) -- sold Sotheby's London, 16 October 1979, lot 229. An early edition of the cycle of sermons for the feasts of the saints by Jacobus de Voragine. Herman Kästlin printed in Augsburg from 1479 to 1485. No more than ten books and some broadsides from his press are extant, and all are quite rare. C 6550; BMC II, 362 (IB. 6241); BSB-Ink. I-107; CIBN J-126; Harvard/Walsh 593; Pr 1753; Goff J-188.
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