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DURAND (GUILLAUME) Rationale divinorum, [Strasbourg, Georg Husner, 1501], and another edition, pigskin binding, Lyon, 1568 (2) image 1
DURAND (GUILLAUME) Rationale divinorum, [Strasbourg, Georg Husner, 1501], and another edition, pigskin binding, Lyon, 1568 (2) image 2
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DURAND (GUILLAUME)
Rationale divinorum, [Strasbourg, Georg Husner, 1501], and another edition, Lyon, 1568 (2)

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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DURAND (GUILLAUME)

Rationale divinorum, 264 leaves, 47 lines and headline, gothic letter, shaved touching lettering to some headlines, sprinkled worming throughout, water-stains to side margins straying onto text on some pages, ink annotations on title-page and some margins, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, worn (small area torn away to lower cover) and loss to headband, lacks clasps [USTC 688339], folio (260 x 200mm.), [Strasbourg, Georg Husner, 1501]; Rationale divinorum officiorum, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, several ink ownership inscriptions on the title, later ink marginal annotations, near contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with Crucifixion and Resurrection scenes surrounded by elaborated ornamental floral decoration on sides, spine painted white and titled in ink, brass clasps and catches, light wear [USTC 140577], 8vo, Lyon, heirs of Jacques Giunta, 1568 (2)

Footnotes

Provenance: First work, "Sum Joannis Murmayerz, Mors via aquam", inscription on title; Wolf Engelbert von Auersperg, (1610-1673), "W. Eng. C. ab Aursp. [...] Cap. Supremi Carni[ol]ae Cat[alogo] Inscriptis A. 1655, inscription on title page; Fuerstlich Auerspergsche Fideicommisbibliothek zu Laybach (Auersperg family library, Ljubljana), bookplate; Second work, "Ex libris Johannis Hochreitterj 1581 HH. Sub umbra alarum tuarum", manuscript inscription on title; Canonio Understorff, seventeenth century inscription on title page; inscription dated 1792 on title.

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