[Rarebooks] FS: 1495 Sermons of BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS with 244 rubricated initials, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $3000 NET

BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS, Saint. SERMONES DE TEMPORE ET DE SANCTIS. 
[Paris]: [Georg Wolf], [1495]. Early Edition. Quarto (6-1/4" x 8-3/4") 
bound in recent full antique-style speckled calf leather; 213 (of 218 
folios, lacking a1 and r3-6), double column, 54 lines and head-line, 
Gothic letter with 244 rubricated initials. Occasional early ink 
marginalia and numbers, later extensive ink notes to verso of final 
leaf. BMC VIII, 148; Goff B-438; Hain 2843; ISTC No. ib00438000 locates 
only one copy in the United States. Some waterstaining to varying 
degrees, mostly marginal and generally light, but within text of a few 
folios; signature D with outer margins repaired to varying degrees, 
heavier to D9 and 10 with loss of a few letters to both folios. Still an 
attractive, Near Fine incunable.

The sermons of St. Bernard, one of the most accomplished and influential 
preachers of the later Middle Ages, were popular with priests and young 
clerics. This edition was one of six printed in the fifteenth century. 
(#016963)        $5,000.00

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