May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135-1202)
Eximii Profundissimique [...] Scriptum Super Hieremiam Prophetam.

Vince: Lazarus de Soardis, 12 June 1516.

Quarto, woodcut portrait of the author lost in thought at his desk on title, text in gothic letter in two columns throughout, woodcut printer's device on colophon, bound in gold-tooled parchment over boards, repaired, 8 1/4 x 6 in.

Theologian and scholar of spirituality, Bernard McGinn, describes Joachim of Fiore as "the most important apocalyptic thinker of the whole medieval period." (see: Apocalypticism Explained, Apocalypse! episode on PBS's Frontline; https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/explanation/joachim.html)

Not in Adams; rare at auction.