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Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Sermones "Dormi secure" de tempore. [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, after 15 August 1481]
4to (288 x 200mm.), 140 leaves (of 142, without first and last blanks), double column, 40 lines and headline, Gothic letter, initials supplied in red or blue, paragraph marks and initial-strokes in red, nineteenth-century blind-stamped calf, some light soiling in a few margins, binding rubbed, spine torn at head
Provenance
William Rogers, signature; Bishop Phillpotts Library, Truro, bookplate recording gift from Mrs Craig, 1936
Literature
HC(Add) 15972; BMC i 263; Goff J449
Catalogue Note
rare: one of only two recorded copies in the United Kingdom. According to the colophon this edition of popular Franciscan sermons was compiled on 15 August 1481.