Bernardus Claravallensis, Sermones de tempore, Venice, 1495, modern calf

Bernardus Claravallensis

Sermones de tempore et de sanctis una cum homiliis et epistolis. Venice: Johannes Emericus de Spira, for Lucantonio Giunta, 12 March 1495

4to (208 x 145mm.), 232 leaves, *⁴ A¹⁰ a–z aa–cc⁸ dd¹⁰, double column, 48 lines plus headline, gothic type, woodcut Giunta device on title-page, woodcut illustration of St Bernard surrounded by monks beneath a Crucifix on title, woodcut initials and illustrations, A1 with a woodcut border and the heading printed in red, woodcut Emerich device below colophon, a few manuscript annotations (aa3-4 heavily annotated), modern smooth calf over wooden boards, tooled in period style, first few leaves slightly damp-stained

The border on A1 was previously used in Catherine of Siena's Libro della divina dottrina of 1494 (see lot 71), also printed for Lucantonio Giunta.

LITERATURE:

ISTC ib00440000; Sander 967