AUGUSTINUS DE LEONISSA.

Sermones pulcherrimi super dominicam orationem Pater noster & angelicam salutationem Ave maria. Unicuique ad populum volenti declamationes facere accommodati. editi per venerandum patrem Augustinum de leonissa ordinis Eremitarum illuminatissimi ecclesie doctoris & Antistitis Hipponensis beati Augustini.

      Two rare post-incunabula with sermons, printed in Cologne Cologne, Heirs of Heinr. Quentel, 1505. Modern blind tooled leather with one clasp. With fine woodcut initials, rubricated throughout. (92) lvs. Collation: 2a-2c8, 2d4, 2e-2m8. (2) BONAVENTURA (Pseudo -). Sermones Quattuor novissimorum perutiles et neccessarii. unumque quemque in devotionis ardorem dei quam timore(m) i(n)ducentes. a beato bonaventura editi.Cologne, apud predicatores (= Cornelis de Zierikzee;m fol. x6v: 'Colonie apud predicatores in vico qui nominatur die stolck gas'), (ca. 1502). With small woodcut of Christ on title surrounded by the text: 'Memorare novissima et in eternum non peccabis' within woodcut border pieces, full page woodcut of the Salvator Mundi on fol. x8v (x7 blank), repeated on verso last leaf which is there partly coloured, rublicated throughout. (8), 128 lvs. Collation: x8, A-P8. Two very interesting and rare early post-incunabula with sermons, both printed in Cologne. The first work contains sermons by bishop Augustinus (de Campellis) of Leonissa (d. 1435), from the order of St. Augustinus, in two parts, with fifty and twenty-eight sermons respectively. This is the third edition, printed by the heirs of the famous Cologne printer Heinrich Quentell who had died in 1501. The first and second were also published in Cologne by the Retro Minores press in 1502 and 1503 respectively. On the last page is an extensive contemporary note in manuscript on the requirements for giving a good sermon. The second collection of sermons, the Sermones quattuor novissimorum, is often attributed to Bonaventura (1221-1274). These sermons are centred around the four final stages of human experience: death, judgment, heaven, and hell. This is an early Cologne edition printed by Cornelis van Zirikzee who lived in the Stocklgasse near the Convent of the Praedicatores. Good copy, with old ms. annotations on fly leaves and in margins second work.- (First title cut without loss of text; wormholes in last lvs., the repeated Salvator Mundi woodcut on the last page damaged). Ad 1: VD 16, A-4321; not in STC German, nor in Adams; ad 2: VD16, B-6579; STC German p. 141; not in Adams.