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LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA (ca.1300-1378). Expositio in Psalterium . -Francesco PETRARCA (1304-1374). Psalmi poenitentiales . -pseudo-Francesco Petrarca. Psalmi confessionales . [Speier: Peter Drach, after 1 Jan. 1491]. Chancery 2° (296x207mm). Collation: a-s 8 2s-t 8 v 6 x-z 8 A-C 8 D 10 (a1r title, a1v Jacobus Wimpheling introduction dated 1 Jan. 1491, headings to prologue, a2r prologue, a5v On Psalm 1, D8r Petrarch, Psalmi poenitentiales , D9r pseudo-Petrarch, Psalmi confessionales , D10v blank). 224 leaves. 53-54 lines, double column. Type: 10:160G (title and headings), 11:90G (text), 13:80G (commentary). First 5-line initial in red, other 2-4-line initial spaces left blank, foliation and psalm numbers added in 16/17th-century hand. (Occasional small wormholes, those on title repaired, others affecting a few letters on first leaves only, extreme upper corner of final leaf repaired, marginal tear in f1 not affecting text.) Nineteenth-century calf-backed speckled paper boards, leather spine label. Provenance : early inscriptions on title: Hartwicus Holzadel de montemartis vicarius ecclesie s. pat o cli suss; Datus est pne liber amore dei et causa favoris Gotfrido berckmans scholari oret deum pro datore 1527 ; Göttingen, Bibliotheca Georgiae Augustae, stamp. FIRST EDITION of Ludolphus's exegesis on the Psalms. Each verse is discussed in terms of its historical, christological and ascetic meaning. HC *10304; BMC II 497 (IB. 8610); Goff L-336; Polain(B) 2530; IDL 3009; IGI 5870; BSB L-258