BONAVENTURA.

Very rare post-incunable from Cologne: a devotional text on the Holy Virgin Septem Psalmi illibate christipare virginis Marie pulcerrimi ac devotissimi. Cum letania dulcissima. Ex psalterio seraphici doc. Bonaventure.

      (Cologne, Carthusians of St. Barbara ?, ca. 1516).. Small 4to. Later marbled wrappers. With large woodcut (77 x 58 mm) on title, showing Mary with Child on a crescent moon held by angels; not rubricated. (8) lvs. Collation: A-B4.. Very rare post-incunable: a devotional booklet from the Psalter of Bonaventura, together with a Mary-litany, and a prayer by Saint Augustin. No publisher or date is given. The only copy we could trace is in the Gutenberg Museum at Mainz, attributed to the printing house of the Carthusians of St. Barbara at Cologne and dated ca. 1516. The text is also attributed to Bernardus, of which there are two copies in the KVK: '... ex psalterio melliflui doctoris Bernardi', with the imprint Magdeburg, M. Brandiss. The copy at Cambridge is dated ca. 1501; that in the BSB, Munich ca. 1510.After the title (verso blank) starts the text "Omnia ne in furore dei sinas corripi me ..." (fols. 2r-3r).On fol. 3r: Letania, till fol. 6r. On fols. 6v-8r follows the "Oratio samctie Augusti episcopi devotissima dicenda xxxiii diebus genibus flexis ad obtinendam gratiam contra quodlibet tribulationem ...". (fol. 8v blank). Good copy with ample margins.- (First quire waterstained). cf. VD16 ZV 23465; not in KVK or NUC.