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BENEDICTUS DE NURSIA, Saint. Regula. 2 full-page woodcut illustrations of Golgotha and St. Benedict with SS. Placidus and Maur. [68] leaves. Gothic type. bound with: GREGORIUS I, Pope. Dialogorum liber secundus de vita et miraculis S. Benedicti. 5 full-page woodcut illustrations, the first depicting the author on his throne, the rest showing scenes from the life of St. Benedict. [56] leaves. Gothic type. Together, 2 volumes in one. 16mo, 100x75 mm, contemporary blind-tooled sheep over wooden boards, heavily worn, missing portions of leather on spine and covers, lacking catches and clasps; marginal foxing and dampstaining in both works, wormhole through blank lower margin of opening leaves in first work, with soiling and old inscription on title page. (Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 21 January 1489/90; 17 February, 1490)
first edition of the Rule of St. Benedict establishing guidelines for monastic life, "by far the most important factor in the organization and spread of monasticism in the West" (CE). Bound with it is thefirst separate edition of the second part of a 4-part collection of dialogues on the lives of early Italian saints, dealing entirely with St. Benedict. H 2772, 7979; GW 3828, 11404; BMC V, 372, XII, 26; Sander 885, 3269; ISTC ib00306000 (21 collections, including 4 in the United States), ig00398000 (24 collections, including 5 in the United States).
