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Johannes Carthusiensis [Giovanni di Deo]

Tetrastichon iodoci galli rubiace[n]sis in opusculu[m] nosce te...

vertitur hoc libro sanctorum dogmate facto precipuum graijs inter responsa chilonis exhibitum, et celo delapsum [in Greek] Gnothi se auton, quod valet expositum quiuis se noscat vt ipsum

Description: occasional woodcut Greek letters, edges a little dusty, traces of small ancient bookmark once clipped to title fore-edge, blind impression at blank foot of title (c.2 x 12cm), single small worm hole at blank head of final gatherings, minor worm trail from upper edge along upper blank margin of last four leaves, ff. [99] of [100], A-B8 C-D6 E-M8/6 N8 O1-7, lacking final blank as usual, on thick high-quality paper, small 4to, (208 x 153mm), recased in antique vellum (mid-20thC), endpapers renewed (but not modern).

Publication Details: [colophon:] Heidelberg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, after 6 July 1489

Notes: [An important collection of devotional works – Interesting blind impression.] A very good, well-margined copy, crisp and clean, of the second edition of this collection of most interesting devotional and theological works, spanning subjects as varied as virtues, the Creation, apparitions, deathbed absolution and a good death. First published in Venice in 1480, it is 'the earliest instance of a work receiving an ecclesiastical "approbatio"' in Italy (Witcombe, p.60). This is the third work printed by Heinrich Knoblochtzer in Heidelberg, and the only edition of a work by Johannes Carthusiensis...more

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Price: £3,000

Subject: Theology

Published Date: 1489

Stock Number: 65849

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