Johannes de Verdena. Sermones dormi secure de tempore et de sanctis.

Strasbourg, Johann Reinhard Grüninger], 4 Dec. and 3 Aug. 1500.

4to. 134, 195 unnumbered ff. (without final blank). Gothic type, 2 cols., 40 lines. With repeated 'accipies' title woodcut (one coloured). Contemp. wooden boards with wide blindstamped calf spine and ms. spine label; monogrammed "IAV" and "VAL" on front cover. One central brass clasp.

€ 4,500.00

This famous compilation of Sunday and holiday sermons by various authors (also known under the title "Sermones dominicales cum expositionibus evangeliorum") enjoyed nearly 90 editions within hardly a century. It was assembled by a Westfalian Franciscan monk who lived around 1300. He collected these sermons "for the profit of slothful and ignorant preachers" (cf. Jöcher, supp. II, 2306).

Spine professionally restored using original material; two missing clasps replaced by a single, central one (probably in the 17th century). Interior slightly browned and fingerstained; some worming. Contemp. ms. dedication at end of pt. 1. Old title stamp shaved; restored paper defects to title and final leaf (slight loss to text on verso of final leaf). Quire Y in pt. 2 has been erroneously bound after quire u in pt. 1.

An appealing copy.

Hain 15966. Goff J-469. Polain 3513. Proctor 494 & 496. BMC I, 115. Schreiber/H., Accipies 54. Stillwell J-420.

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