$32,400
Medieval Text Manuscript, Delectus Opusculorum . Italian rotunda gothic book script, c. 1450. Compilation of six short works of mystic devotion: Isaac the Syrian, Abbot of Spoleto, Italy. (mid-6th century) Ysaac abbatis de Syria liber singularis ; Bernard of Clairvaux. (1090-1153) De Contemptu Mundi Liber ; [Bernardinus de Siena (1380-1444)] Liber de Stimulis Amoris in Salvatorem: et Exposition super Pater Noster ; Egidio Perugini, De Humana Sapientia, sive de Divinis Fontibus ; [Richard of Saint Victor] (d. 1173) De Gradibus Caritatis ; and Saint Anselm (d. 1109) De Christi Passione et De Beate Virginis Passione ; 218 leaves (436 pages), signatures mostly in 10s and 12s, collated, complete with blanks at the end of each work; illuminated seven-line initial depicting the author presenting his book to Christ at the start of the first work, the second work has a small drawing of a saint at the incipit, and third work begins with a small drawing of a monk; initials and headlines in red and blue throughout, later 18th century manuscript index and notes added; light worming to first few leaves; catchwords on the verso of the last leaf of each gathering throughout; 18th century limp vellum binding. This is an agreeable compendium of short medieval devotional works, mainly misattributed in their authorship. Many works were composed as psedou-Aquinas, or pseudo-Bonaventure in the middle ages, and it seems like that this is an apt example of that practice: a small book that merits fur Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
