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ALBERTUS MAGNUS, attributed to. De laudibus Mariae. 300 leaves. Gothic type. Rubricated. Folio, 300x208 mm, 19th-century black leather over bevelled wooden boards, worn, endleaves renewed; dampstaining in upper margins through most of volume, scattered stains elsewhere, title soiled, blank corner off L6, last leaf reinforced in gutter, small piece excised from front endleaf. Ownership inscriptions and admonitory curses of the Franciscan monastery of Dorsten, North Rhein-Westphalia; armorial bookplates of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); signatures of the Rev. John Spratt of the Carmelite Convent of Dublin dated 1844; later pencil signature of C. A. Burnham. (Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1493)
Second edition of a work probably written in the mid-13th century by the Paris theologian Ricardus de Sancto Laurentio; the undated first edition was printed no later than 1473. HC(Add) 10767 = H 10768; GW 616/10; BMC I, 152; ISTC ia00248000.
