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Auction archive: Lot number 7

HILARIUS (St., d.367?). Opera complura . Paris: Joannes Badius Ascenius, 10 September 1501 - 9 January 1511. Title printed in red and black, Roman type, double column. Woodcut Badé device on title, historiated and ornamental criblé initials.

Auction 06.06.2001
6 Jun 2001
Estimate
£15,000 - £20,000
ca. US$21,018 - US$28,024
Price realised:
£11,750
ca. US$16,464
Auction archive: Lot number 7

HILARIUS (St., d.367?). Opera complura . Paris: Joannes Badius Ascenius, 10 September 1501 - 9 January 1511. Title printed in red and black, Roman type, double column. Woodcut Badé device on title, historiated and ornamental criblé initials.

Auction 06.06.2001
6 Jun 2001
Estimate
£15,000 - £20,000
ca. US$21,018 - US$28,024
Price realised:
£11,750
ca. US$16,464
Beschreibung:

HILARIUS (St., d.367?). Opera complura . Paris: Joannes Badius Ascenius, 10 September 1501 - 9 January 1511. Title printed in red and black, Roman type, double column. Woodcut Badé device on title, historiated and ornamental criblé initials. [ Bound with :] JOANNES DAMASCENUS (St., c.675-c.756). Theologia quatuor libris explicata: et commentario elucidata . Translated by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples, and with commentary by Josse van Clichtove. Paris: Henri Estienne, 5 February 1512. Roman type, full-page woodcut title border incorporating the arms of the university of Paris (Schreiber III), 4 woodcut text diagrams, woodcut initials from several sets, zodiac and other tables. 2 works in one volume, chancery 2° (284 x 195mm). (Lightly browned, small wormholes at beginning and end, very occasional light dampstain, heavier in final few leaves.) CONTEMPORARY INGOLSTADT BINDING RETAINING ITS CHAIN, blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, sides panelled with intersecting triple fillets, foliate, rosette and other tools ( Schwenke-Sammlung Granatapfel 103 [Ingolstadt Franciscan convent] and ?Granatapfel 5 [Schunke tentatively assigns to Augsburg, but also posits Ingolstadt]), chased brass corner and centerpiece, the cornerpieces dated 1465 and with script 'maria hilf uns aus not', two fore-edge clasps, chain attached to rear board (staple, 3 links, 2 rings), paper title label on front cover, woodcut historiated initial 'R' (or B?) on front cover, pastedowns from a German 12th-century manuscript Homiliary on vellum (labels worn, small tear in spine, small wormholes, one cornerpiece partly detached). Provenance : Ingolstadt, Franciscan convent (17th-century inscription on first page) -- S M A I[ngolstadt?] (stamp on top edge). FIRST EDITION of the works of St. Hilary, and SECOND EDITION, THE FIRST WITH CLICHTOVE'S COMMENTARY, of St. John Damascene's highly influential formal exposition of the Christian faith, which remains a principal source for dogmatic opinions of the Fathers of the Eastern Church. The second book is devoted to the physical world, and John demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of astronomy, discusses angels and demons, earthly paradise and the properties of human nature. Lefèvre includes a zodiacal chart for 1507, the date of the first edition. It is one of the few Greek works translated by Lefèvre, chosen 'evidently because he felt that it was one of the major works which had preserved and transmitted the Neoplatonic teaching of the Eastern Church on which Western mystical Christian doctrine was built' (Schreiber, p. 16). Mortimer, Harvard French , 329; Schreiber Estiennes , 12.

Auction archive: Lot number 7
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jun 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

HILARIUS (St., d.367?). Opera complura . Paris: Joannes Badius Ascenius, 10 September 1501 - 9 January 1511. Title printed in red and black, Roman type, double column. Woodcut Badé device on title, historiated and ornamental criblé initials. [ Bound with :] JOANNES DAMASCENUS (St., c.675-c.756). Theologia quatuor libris explicata: et commentario elucidata . Translated by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples, and with commentary by Josse van Clichtove. Paris: Henri Estienne, 5 February 1512. Roman type, full-page woodcut title border incorporating the arms of the university of Paris (Schreiber III), 4 woodcut text diagrams, woodcut initials from several sets, zodiac and other tables. 2 works in one volume, chancery 2° (284 x 195mm). (Lightly browned, small wormholes at beginning and end, very occasional light dampstain, heavier in final few leaves.) CONTEMPORARY INGOLSTADT BINDING RETAINING ITS CHAIN, blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, sides panelled with intersecting triple fillets, foliate, rosette and other tools ( Schwenke-Sammlung Granatapfel 103 [Ingolstadt Franciscan convent] and ?Granatapfel 5 [Schunke tentatively assigns to Augsburg, but also posits Ingolstadt]), chased brass corner and centerpiece, the cornerpieces dated 1465 and with script 'maria hilf uns aus not', two fore-edge clasps, chain attached to rear board (staple, 3 links, 2 rings), paper title label on front cover, woodcut historiated initial 'R' (or B?) on front cover, pastedowns from a German 12th-century manuscript Homiliary on vellum (labels worn, small tear in spine, small wormholes, one cornerpiece partly detached). Provenance : Ingolstadt, Franciscan convent (17th-century inscription on first page) -- S M A I[ngolstadt?] (stamp on top edge). FIRST EDITION of the works of St. Hilary, and SECOND EDITION, THE FIRST WITH CLICHTOVE'S COMMENTARY, of St. John Damascene's highly influential formal exposition of the Christian faith, which remains a principal source for dogmatic opinions of the Fathers of the Eastern Church. The second book is devoted to the physical world, and John demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of astronomy, discusses angels and demons, earthly paradise and the properties of human nature. Lefèvre includes a zodiacal chart for 1507, the date of the first edition. It is one of the few Greek works translated by Lefèvre, chosen 'evidently because he felt that it was one of the major works which had preserved and transmitted the Neoplatonic teaching of the Eastern Church on which Western mystical Christian doctrine was built' (Schreiber, p. 16). Mortimer, Harvard French , 329; Schreiber Estiennes , 12.

Auction archive: Lot number 7
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jun 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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