Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
CASSIANUS, JOANNES. De institutis coenobiorum; origine, causis et remediis vitiorum. [279] (of [280]) leaves; lacking blank 2B8. Small 8vo, old reversed leather over pasteboard, top of spine damaged, portion of leather missing from front cover, hinges cracked; some marginal dampstaining, wormhole through outer margin of opening leaves not impairing legibility, stain and old inscription on title. Branded ownership mark ("S. Fernando") of the Colegio Apostólico de Propaganda Fide de San Fernando de México on bottom edges. (Lyon: Simon Bevilacqua, 19 September 1516)

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Manual of monastic life composed in the early 4th century and first published in 1485, which influenced later Western monastic rules.