May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 129

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
PETRUS COMESTOR. Historia scholastica. [207] (of [208]) leaves; lacks last (blank?) leaf. Gothic type. Rubricated. Folio, 269x185 mm, 17th-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps; scattered insignificant stains and early underscoring, 2 small wormholes in blank margin of opening leaves, portion of upper margin of a4 excised and restored slightly affecting headline on recto. Later ownership inscription of the Carthusians of Gaming, Lower Austria, on title. (Strassburg: [Georg Husner], 16 November 1503)

Additional Details

Tenth edition of a popular 12th-century bible paraphrase originally published in 1473. ISTC ip00467000; VD16 P1829.