Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 206

Price Realized: $ 6,240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
SIMON DE CASSIA. Expositio super totum corpus Evangeliorum. [385] (of [386]) leaves; lacks initial blank. Gothic type. Folio, 392x288, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, rebacked, with clasps and cover corners restored, endpapers renewed; occasional marginal soiling and dampstaining, several small wormholes through opening leaves not impairing legibility, inscription in blank area of first page heavily abraded with resulting small hole. 16th- and early 17th-century Bohemian Dominican, Franciscan, and other monastic purchase and ownership inscriptions on front flyleaves. [Strassburg: Johann Prüss (or Speyer: Peter Drach?), circa 1484-87]

Additional Details

first edition of a commentary on the Gospels by an Italian Augustinian theologian (d. 1348). BMC I, 120; Goff S522.