Savonarola, Girolamo, Saint Augustine.
devotional treatises] Expositio[n]es in psalmos, Qui regis israel, Miserere mei deus, In te domine speravi. Item Regulae quedam fructuosissimae ad omnes religiosos attinentes. [bound after] Opusculum multarum bonaru[m] rerum refertum ut sunt É
- Venice: Cesare Arrivabene, 1517 [and] Venice: Petrus de Quarengiis Bergomensis, 1512. 2 works in one vol., 8vo, (i), II-XX, XXII-LIII; (iv). (Savonorola): woodcut scene of the author in his cell on title, woodcut printer's mark on last page. Contemporary Venetian blindtooled morocco, in a panel design with ropework stamps in central panel and outer frame (a few expert repairs to backstrip). Brown cloth drop-box. A fine example of devotional treatises for the regular clergy in Venice in the early 16th century, in a beautifully preserved contemporary binding. This volume includes a Latin translation of Savonarola's commentary on three of the Psalms (XXX, L, LXXIX) along with a collection of smaller meditational treatises by some of the ancient and medieval Fathers of the Church. These works include Augustinus, Meditationes, Soliloquia, Manuale, Bernardus, Epistola non vulgaris and Sermo de passione domini, Damianus, Sermo, Anselmus, Meditationes, and Mapheus Vegius, Carmen in laudem Sancte MoniceÑamong others. Two copies in NUC (Folger and Yale). OCLC records 6 copies in the US: UCLA, Boston College, Harvard Houghton, University of Pennsylvania, SMU Bridwell, UT Austin Ransom. Sander 6794 (erroneous collation). Essling 1456. Gruyer, Les Illustrations des ouvrages de Jerome Savonarole, p. 162 (note). Provenance: Giovanni Guarinoni (manuscript ex-libris); Silvain Brunschwig (bookplate). [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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