Textoris, Sermo de passione Christi, Lyon, 1489, later burgundy morocco

Guilermus Textoris, de Aquisgrano

Sermo de passione Christi, sive Sermo historialis passionis dominicae. Lyon: Johannes Trechsel, 12 November 1489

4to (185 x 125mm.), 90 leaves, a-k⁸ l¹⁰, 36 lines plus headline, gothic type, old annotations (some trimmed), nineteenth-century straight-grained burgundy morocco, some staining, small marginal tear to f2, small wormholes in last few leaves, spine defective

This collection of sermons by the Basel preacher Textoris (c. 1420-1512) was produced at the behest of the French chancellor, Guillaume de Rochefort, who is named in the heading on a2. It was first printed in Basel in 1486.

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