[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of Hugo de Sancto Victore's 1485 "De Sacramentis Christianae..."

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(INCUNABULA) Hugo de Sancto Victore. DE SACRAMENTIS CHRISTIANAE FIDEI. Strassburg: (Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg [Georg Husner]). 30 July 1485. Folio (29 x 20.7 cm). ff.160. Complete, with the 3 blank leaves, 70, 71 and 160. Double column text, headlines, guide-letters, 2- to 6-line large initials; capital-strokes, paragraph marks and underlining supplied in red. Minor marginal hole at beginning and marginal water stain at end. 16th century pigskin over wooden boards blind stamped with central tool depicting crucifixion and IHS within sunburst on front cover, and Madonna with child in sunburst on rear cover, edges dyed green. Without 2 fore-edge clasps.	$15,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
First edition of the complete (both parts) text. Part 2 only had been printed by Gunter Zainer of Augsburg, circa 1477. This is the greatest work of Hugo St. Victor (c. 1078/96-1141), an important mystic whose writings and teachings from the Augustine Abbey of Saint Victor  in Paris became one of the foundations of scholastic theology. The Catholic Encyclopedia states he was "a great mystical writer, he was also a philosopher and a scholastic theologian of the first order." As an ordered compendium of Christian Theology, "De Sacramentis Christiane Fidei" is the precedent for all later "Summae" and it provides the foundations of Hugo's critical interpretation of the sacraments. HC *9025; BMC I, 133; Goff H-535; ISTC ih00535000. Provenance: Benedictine monastery of St. Peter the Apostle at Oberaltaich (contemporary inscription on first leaf); J. R. Ritman (BPH bookplate).


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