Textoris, Sermo de passione Christi, [Basel, 1486], nineteenth-century half calf

TEXTORIS, GUILLERMUS, DE AQUISGRANO

Sermo de passione Christi, sive Sermo historialis passionis dominicae; Dialogus beatae Mariae et Anselmi de passione Christi. Pseudo-Bernardus [i.e. Oglerius de Tridino], De planctu B.V.M. [Basel: Michael Wenssler] for Guillaume de Rochefort, [not after 26 September 1486]

4to (205 x 145mm.), 114 leaves, a-n⁸ o¹⁰, 33 lines, gothic type, initials, paraphs, initial strokes and underlining in red, some larger initials with traces of silver, nineteenth-century half calf, paper gilt lettering-pieces, binding slightly worn

FIRST EDITION. This collection of sermons by the Basel preacher Textoris (c. 1420-1512) was printed at the behest of the French chancellor, Guillaume de Rochefort, who is named in the heading on a2.

LITERATURE:

ISTC it00119000

PROVENANCE:

Capuchin convent of Agonia Domini, Nothgottes (near Rüdesheim am Rhein), inscription on title-page