Description
Hugo de Prato Florido. Sermones de sanctis, collation: A-B6 a-n8 o12+1 p-z8 [et]8 [con]8 A-D8 E6, double column, 254 ff. (of 255, lacking blank a1), B6 blank, 48-51 lines, Gothic type, capital spaces, 09 contemporary ink marginalia at head, A1 with tear at foot and small section missing from outer margin (both without loss of text), blank f. loose, worming to last few ff., worse to final 2ff. with loss of a few letters or words, some water-staining and spotting, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, covers with triple filets forming an intersecting triple frame and circular floral and almond shaped fleuron stamps, lower cover compartments decorated with fleuron and foliate staff stamps, spine in compartments, soiled and rubbed, folio (270 x 193mm.), [Ulm], [Conrad Dinckmut], [1486].
⁂ Rare at auction. These sermons are now attributed to the thirteenth-century Augustinian Evrardus de Valle Scholarum. It is interesting to note that the binding on our copy is very similar to that of the Bodleian copy referenced here, both of which were likely bound at the Benedictine monastery at Benediktbeuren.
Literature: Goff H-514; HC 9010; Bod-in H-233; BSB-Ink E-135.
Lot 102
Hugo de Prato Florido. Sermones de sanctis, in a contemporary binidng, rare at auction. Ulm, Conrad Dinckmut, 1486.
Hammer Price: £1,300
Description
Hugo de Prato Florido. Sermones de sanctis, collation: A-B6 a-n8 o12+1 p-z8 [et]8 [con]8 A-D8 E6, double column, 254 ff. (of 255, lacking blank a1), B6 blank, 48-51 lines, Gothic type, capital spaces, 09 contemporary ink marginalia at head, A1 with tear at foot and small section missing from outer margin (both without loss of text), blank f. loose, worming to last few ff., worse to final 2ff. with loss of a few letters or words, some water-staining and spotting, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, covers with triple filets forming an intersecting triple frame and circular floral and almond shaped fleuron stamps, lower cover compartments decorated with fleuron and foliate staff stamps, spine in compartments, soiled and rubbed, folio (270 x 193mm.), [Ulm], [Conrad Dinckmut], [1486].
⁂ Rare at auction. These sermons are now attributed to the thirteenth-century Augustinian Evrardus de Valle Scholarum. It is interesting to note that the binding on our copy is very similar to that of the Bodleian copy referenced here, both of which were likely bound at the Benedictine monastery at Benediktbeuren.
Literature: Goff H-514; HC 9010; Bod-in H-233; BSB-Ink E-135.