GREGORY I (Saint, ca. 540-604, Pope 590-604). Secundus dyalogorum liber... de vita ac miraculis beatissimi Benedicti. - Benedicti regula . - BERNARD AYGLIER (abbot of Monte Cassino, d. 1282). Speculum Bernardi Abbatis casinensis de his ad que in professione obligatur monachus . Venice: Petrus Liechtenstein 1520. 16 o (105 x 78 mm). Gothic types. Title printed in red, table and text in quire i printed in red and black. Small woodcut title vignette of Saint Benedict, repeated within woodcut initials on a1r and k1r , woodcut vignette with angels on verso of title, full-page woodcut of Benedict enthroned within architectural border, a few other woodcut ornamental initials with inset saints. (Light mostly marginal foxing to a very few leaves.) Contemporary vellum, 18th-century manuscript titles on upper cover. Provenance : Georgius Linnclaverius? (16th-century inscription on title); Schoental [near Regensburg], Augustinian Hermits (inscription on title, Ad conventu vallis speciosa ); a few early marginalia and underlines; Lionel H. Pries (bookplate). VERY RARE pocket edition of Gregory I's popular life of St. Benedict, with the Benedictine Rule and the rules of monastic conduct by Bernard Ayglier, 13th-century abbot of Monte Cassino, first printed in the Giunta 1505 edition of the same collection of texts. The woodcuts differ from those of the 1505 edition. According to NUC and RLIN, there are no copies in American libraries. BM/STC Italian p. 314; Essling 530 (imperfect); Sander 3273.
GREGORY I (Saint, ca. 540-604, Pope 590-604). Secundus dyalogorum liber... de vita ac miraculis beatissimi Benedicti. - Benedicti regula . - BERNARD AYGLIER (abbot of Monte Cassino, d. 1282). Speculum Bernardi Abbatis casinensis de his ad que in professione obligatur monachus . Venice: Petrus Liechtenstein 1520. 16 o (105 x 78 mm). Gothic types. Title printed in red, table and text in quire i printed in red and black. Small woodcut title vignette of Saint Benedict, repeated within woodcut initials on a1r and k1r , woodcut vignette with angels on verso of title, full-page woodcut of Benedict enthroned within architectural border, a few other woodcut ornamental initials with inset saints. (Light mostly marginal foxing to a very few leaves.) Contemporary vellum, 18th-century manuscript titles on upper cover. Provenance : Georgius Linnclaverius? (16th-century inscription on title); Schoental [near Regensburg], Augustinian Hermits (inscription on title, Ad conventu vallis speciosa ); a few early marginalia and underlines; Lionel H. Pries (bookplate). VERY RARE pocket edition of Gregory I's popular life of St. Benedict, with the Benedictine Rule and the rules of monastic conduct by Bernard Ayglier, 13th-century abbot of Monte Cassino, first printed in the Giunta 1505 edition of the same collection of texts. The woodcuts differ from those of the 1505 edition. According to NUC and RLIN, there are no copies in American libraries. BM/STC Italian p. 314; Essling 530 (imperfect); Sander 3273.
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