(LYRA, NICOLAUS DE, COMMENT.)

Biblia Latina.

      Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 6 september. Single leaf. 2°. Size 24 x 34 cm. Matted in white cardboard frame. Biblia Latina P. IV. With the "Postilla litteralis" by Nicolaus de Lyra, "Expositiones prologurum" by Guilelmus Brito, "Additiones ad Postillam Nicolai de Lyra" by Paulus Burgensis and Replicae contra Burgensem by Matthias Doering. Leaf from: St. Paul the Apostle, Second Letter to the Corinthians. Leaf CCV/ cc 5. Beautifully printed. Text 2 colums, 19 (recto) and 23 (verso) lines. Commentary 2 columns, 71 lines. Rubricated in red and blue and with red and blue lombards. Nicolaus Lyranus (Vieille Lyre, Normandy, ca 1270 - 1349) was a French Franciscan, a doctor at the Sorbonne in Paris and one of the foremost medieval exegetes. His main work, the "Postillae perpetuae in universam S. Scripturam", was the first printed Bible commentary. Nicolai's exegesis was strongly influenced by the commentaries of St. Thomas of Aquino. The Editio Princeps appeared in 1471 in Rome, and was reprinted many times. The "Postilla" remained the most influential exegesis-manual in the next centuries and Luther used it too. A fine leaf.