Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379
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Sale 2379 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 22,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
(MANUSCRIPT.) Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint; et al. Sermones ad heremitas [and other texts]. manuscript in latin and italian, written in small round gothic script in black and brown ink, 27-28 lines, recto and verso, on vellum. Headings in red; initials of 2 to 4 lines in blue and red with contrasting penwork dccoration; initial strokes in yellow. [163] (of ?) leaves, incomplete at end. 147x109 mm, 18th-century vellum boards with spine title in ink. Ownership inscription of Wolfgang Maximilian von Goethe (1820-83), grandson of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dated Rome 1854; acquired at the sale of the library of Luigi Pani of Rimini (1775-1850). Italy, early 15th century
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Contents: leaves 1r-100v, St. Augustine, Sermones ad heremitas, numbers 29-76; 100v-139v, St. Bonaventura, Soliloquium; 140r-156r, Marian lament in Italian ("Incomincia i pianti e le lamentatione della nostra dona, O anime nobile e devote . . ."); 156r-163v, meditation on Christ attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux ("Incomincia una divota meditatione de sancto Bernardo abbate . . . Quam vehementer amore amplexasti me, o bone yhesu . . ."), incomplete at end, breaking off after "audiant pauperes et letentur mediocres et hortentur."