PARISIENSIS, GULIELMUS.:

POSTILLE MAIORES TOTIUS ANNI CUM QUESTIONIBUS DE NOVO ADDITIS. In hoc volumine subscripta continentur epistole & evangelia: tam dominicalium quam ferialium. De propijs officijs - Expositiones doctorum - Rabbani - Glose

      Venice, 1514. interlinearis - Expositio moralis - Annotationes in epistolas - Una & septuaginta questiones - Apostille nove accurate - Alphabeticus index & summarius. Venice, Jo. Jacobus Draconis,1514. Newly revised by Jo. Jacobus Draconis, 8vo, 215 x 135 mm, 8½ x 5¼ inches, 1 full page woodcut illustration of the crucifixion with a border of figures from the old testament, first page of text within pictorial border showing an angel at the foot and more old testament figures at sides and top, numerous small woodcut vignettes throughout the text, printed in black letter, pages (12), CCLXXXIIII (numbered on rectos only, making 568 pages), (12) - index and Questions, bound in later vellum, hand lettered to spine. Vellum darkened and slightly spotted, small old paper repair to lower corner of title page, single worm hole to lower margin of first 5 leaves, 5 ink letters in lower border of first text page, ink note in 2 margins, ink smudge in 1 margin, occasional small pale stain to margins, a few pages age-browned, pale water stain to leaves CCXLV-CCXLVIII and intermittently in the fore-edge margin until the end. Binding tight and firm. A very good copy. The imprint is taken from the colophon on the final page. The work contains a Preface by Jean Deverdellay which is found in other editions. This Venetian imprint is not in Adams (Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe 1501-1600 in Cambridge Libraries) and is rare. As we have not been able to locate a copy we cannot be sure that there was not an engraved title page, but our title is on A1. Gulielmus Parisiensis, also known as Guillaume d'Auvergne or Gulielmus Avernus, to whom this work is usually attributed was a French Dominican, professor of theology. He was born towards the end of the 12th century and died when Archbishop of Paris in 1248 or 1249. He was considered one of the most enlightened theologians and philosophers of his age, a man of great learning. The earliest printed Postille Maiores date from the 1470s and were much reprinted well into the 16th century in France, Switzerland and Venice. Images sent on request.