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NICOLAUS DE BLONY [i. e., MIKOLAJ Z BLONIA]. Tractatus sacerdotalis de sacramentis deq[ue] dignis officiis [etc.]. 95 [i. e., 91], [1] leaves. bound with: FERNÁNDEZ DE SANTAELLA, RODRIGO. Sacerdotalis instructio circa missam. [12] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one, each with woodcuts of the Crucifixion and Flagellation of Christ on title. 4to, 198x145 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, worn, lacking ties, book block loose in binding; light marginal dampstaining throughout, occasional soiling, scattered contemporary marginalia. Contemporary manuscript prayer in Latin on last page of the first work, supposedly in the hand of the Augustinian missionary, philosopher, and educator Alonso de la Veracruz (1507-84), according to a modern note on the same page. Unidentified Augustinian branded ownership mark on top edges. (Logroño: Arnao Guillén de Brocar, 18 March 1503; 21 March 1503)
Guides to the sacraments and the Mass for priests, first published circa 1475 and in 1499, respectively. Nicolaus de Blony was a 15th-century Polish theological author and chaplain to the Bishop of Poznan; Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella (1444-1509) was a Spanish cleric who founded the Colegio de Santa María de Jesús, the predecessor of the University of Seville. The editions offered here are among the earliest books from the press of Arnao Guillén de Brocar, the first printer in Logroño. Previously the prototypographer of Pamplona, he later moved to Alcalá de Henares, where he printed the Complutensian Polyglot. Norton 369, 370; Palau 229112, 89735 note (not having seen a copy, citing Gallardo).
