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GRATIUS, ORTWIN, editor. Fasciculus rerum expetendarum ac fugiendarum. Title within woodcut historiated border. [4], 242 leaves. Folio, 318x204 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, concentric historiated rolls (Golden Calf/Isaac/Jacob/Moses and Salvator/Paulus/Petrus dated 1540) enclosing gilt panel stamp of St. Paul with title at top and date 1553 at bottom on front cover, center panel of roll tools (Salvator/Paulus/Petrus and Aeneas/Penelope/Achilles/Hector/Helena dated 1542) on rear cover with owner's name at top ("D[omini] Pauli Sarb Posnanien[sis] Or[dinis] Pre[dicatorum]"), brass catches, lacks clasps, chain attachment at top of front cover, missing from rear cover, top of spine chipped; minor worming on endpapers, light dampstaining in lower portion of opening leaves, contents otherwise clean. Poznan Dominican ownership inscription on title. Cologne: (Peter Quentel), 1535
first edition of a collection of documents in support of church reform, including material relating to the Waldensian movement, John Wycliffe, and Jan Hus, which served as a source for John Foxe's 1563 Protestant martyrology Acts and Monuments. Contemporaries of Erasmus II, 124-25.
