BRUNO of Cologne, Saint ; [Zaccaria FERRERI]. Opera & Vita post indicem serie literaria indicanda.

£1,850 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Bruno's Bruno BRUNO of Cologne, Saint ; [Zaccaria FERRERI]. Opera Vita post indicem serie literaria indicanda. [ Paris ] : Jodocus Badius Ascensius . [27 March 1524.] Folio. Bound in pigskin over boards in 1939 by W. H. Smith and Son (rear turn-in signed in blind) for Sotheran’s (twentieth-century ink stamp to front free endpaper), preserving a few deckle edges; ff. [8 (contents)], DXX; †8 a–z8 A–H8 2A–2Z8 3a–3g8 3h10 2A8 2B6 2C8, f. DVIII misfoliated, f. CCCXCVIII blank; roman letter, gothic running-titles, text in two columns, 6 large in-text woodcut illustrations, 2-, 6-, and 10-line woodcut criblé initials, title printed in red and black within an elaborate woodcut architectural border depicting a printer at work; a few scratches to rear board; slight worming at inner upper margin of first 4 ff. subtly repaired, last 4 ff. reinforced at gutter; light soiling to f. CCLXXXIXr, small marginal oilstain to quire 2Z; pinhole wormhole to first 3 quires touching a single character per page, light marginal spotting to quire D, pale marginal dampstaining to Vita; twentieth-century bookplate and ownership inscription of Bruno Scott James to front pastedown ( see below ); a handsome copy. First edition of the collected works of St Bruno of Cologne (c. 1030–1101), founder of the Carthusian Order, with an illustrated life of the saint and a lengthy poem on the foundation of the Order by the Benedictine-turned-Carthusian Zaccaria Ferreri, our copy from the library of the Benedictine-tur

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