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GUILLERMUS PARISIENSIS. Postilla super epistolas et evangelia. [94] leaves, including final blank. Gothic type. Rubricated, and with 8-line initial F in blue on gold ground with white penwork tracery on a2r. Folio, 300x204 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, with panel of lozenges formed by undulating vinework on front cover and triangles formed by intersecting diagonal fillets on rear cover filled in with thistle and dragon tools, rebacked with additional restoration at bottom of covers; contents dampwrinkled with marginal dampstaining throughout, repaired wormholes in blank margins at beginning and end, final blank rehinged. Ownership inscription and stamp of the Carthusian monastery of Buxheim in Bavaria on a2r. (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1 February 1488)
Forty-fifth edition of a popular 13th-century New Testament commentary first published circa 1472 and reprinted over 100 times by the end of the century. H 8268; GW 11960; BMC II, 432; ISTC ig00683500 (56 holding institutions, including only Georgetown and Cooper-Hewitt in the U. S.).
