[Rarebooks] FS: Incunable sermons of "Saint Bonaventura" Venice: 1497/98

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(INCUNABULA) Bonaventura, Saint. DIAETA SALUTIS, [Add] Devota Contemplatio, seu Meditatio de Nativitate Domini. De Resurrectione a Peccato ad Gratium. Venice: Johannes (Petrus) de Quarengiis, Bergomensis. 1 Feb. 1497/98. Sm. 8vo. ff. 115,(19). Complete. Double column text. One woodcut initial on a2. Cont. blind tooled paneled calf, central panel on both covers with four ornaments in line vertically. Spine rebacked with a portion of the old spine laid down. Minor worming to title and final two leaves, repaired. Front endleaf (recto) and final leaf (verso) with contemporary annotations. With the bookplate of the "Philosophia Hermetica." Gathering "i" mis-folded. This copy with variant in colophon, "Jo/annis."	$7,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Popular sermons attributed to the great Franciscan theologian Saint Bonaventura, or "Pseudo-Bonaventura." In fact, the true author of the DIAETA is Guillelmus de Lanicia, and the DEVOTA CONTEMPLATIO is Johannes de Caulibus. See ISTC ib0087900; BMC V, 513; Goff B-879; HC 3531.


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