Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PETER of Poitiers; and ZWINGLI, ULRICH, the Younger. Genealogia et chronologia sanctorum patrum . . . quae a Julio Caesare, usque ad nostra tempora continuata est. 63 woodcut text portraits of French kings from Pharamond to Henry IV. [8], 184 pages, 185-264 columns, [16] pages. bound before: ZWINGLI, ULRICH, the Younger. Sermones XXX in undecimum caput epistolae ad Hebraeos, in quo de justificatione, quae fit per fidem, agitur. [16], 187, [13] pages. Together, 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 314x199 mm, early binding of limp manuscript vellum (bifolium from 13th-century manuscript of Petrus Lombardus, Commentaria in Psalmos); contents heavily browned, Scotch tape stains on free endpapers slightly offsetting onto title and last leaf, early owner's notes in lower margin of first title. Basel: Leonhard Ostein, 1592

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scarce first edition of a synopsis of biblical history presented in genealogical form for pedagogical use, written by a 12th-century theologian and chancellor of the cathedral school of Paris, with continuations to the 16th century by Zwingli, published here with the latter's sermons on justification by faith.