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ALEXANDER CARPENTARIUS. Destructorium vitiorum. [292] (of [294]) leaves; lacks the title and final blank. Gothic type. Rubricated, and with 18-line decorated initial O on d1r. Gothic type. Folio, 369x272 mm, modern 1/4 tan morocco gilt; occasional light toning and soiling, scattered minor stains, faint smeared ink blots, and early marginalia, repaired tears across b8 and d8 slightly affecting text, blank lower outer corner off G5. Early Cologne Carmelite inscription and 19th-century Cologne Gymnasial-Bibliothek stamp (duplicate, released) on first page. wide-margined copy. (Cologne: [Ludwig von Renchen], 16 August 1485)
Second edition of a treatise on sin written by an English theologian in the early 15th century and first published in 1480. The book is divided into 8 sections, dealing with the subject in general and original sin in the first, and the Seven Deadly Sins in the rest. Hain-Copinger 650; GW 866; BMC I, 266 (measuring 357x271 mm); ISTC ia00392000 (multiple copies in Europe, only 3 in the U.S.).
