Sales catalogues: Quaritch

Date:
October 1871
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/4
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8. Hagiology, Martyrology, Passionals, Lives of Christ and the Saints, | 1022 ACTA SANCTORUM, quotquot toto Orbe coluntur, collegit, digessit, notis illustravit Joannes Botianpus, operam et studium contulit Godefr. Henschenius, editio novissima, curante Carnandet, Vols. I-LIV, (to the 14th October), folio, uneut, £50. Paris, 1863-68 A marvellous production of gigantic learning and unwearied industry. No por- tion of a medizval history can be written without copious reference to the Acta Sanc- torwm ; and, regarded from this point of view, there is nothing except’ the Monumenta Germanize of Pertz, and the Historiens des Gaules of Bouquet that can claim to rank with the vast work of the Bollandists. It cannot be forgotten that the Lives of the Saints include a history and biography of the most prominent figures in Christendom during a thousand years. 1023 Burier’s Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other principal Saints, com- piled from original monuments, 12 vols. 18mo. portraits, cloth, 12s Derby, cir. 1850 1024 DAT DUYTSCHE PASSIONAIL. Tzo der ere godes ys dit boych genome usse eine boych dat men noemt Aurea legeda, dat ys tzo duytsch geheysche dye gulde legende off dat Passionail, 2 vols. in 1 stout sm. folio, nwmerous very early woodcuts, coloured in the style of the Block-Books, fine copy in the original oak boards, covered with stamped leather, EXTREMELY RARE, wnknown to Panzer, £20. Callen, Ludovuich van Renché, 1485 In the Cologne dialect of Low German with a supplement which concerns chiefly the Saints of Cologne. This work is for the most part a translation from Conrad Winter’s Latin edition of 1481 of the Golden Legend, but varies towards the end. It includes one of St. Thomas of Canterbury. Caxton probably translated his Golden Legend from the first edition of this book. Panzer only mentions one book by this printer—whom he calls Ludovicus de Reuchen—a Latin Psalter printed one year before the present volume. 1025 PASSIONAEL. Hyr heuet syk an dat Passi-| onael: Unde dat Leuend der | hylghen: Unde to deme ersten | dat Samer Deet .. . On fol. 207: Hyr heuet syk au dat winter DEEL . .-. In fine: Hyr endighet sik dat passionael efte der Hyllighen levendt mit velen nyen merck- like schoné historien, . . . uth deme latine in dat dudesck ghebracht, stout folio, 418 leaves, with many quaint and rude wooncuts, probably used here for the first time, all the cuts entirely free from colour, singu- larly fine sound copy, calf, VERY RARE, £8. Liibeck, Arnd, 1492 This work differs entirely from the preceding in arrangement and in language. They may be looked upon as in general two independent versions of the Awrea Legenda. 1026 PASSIONEL efte dat leuent der hyllighen to dude uth dem latino mit uelen nyen hystorien unde leren, stout sm. folio, nwmerous woodcuts, Jine copy, but wanting leaves 18 and 55 of the second part, and a corner of leaf 73 in the first part torn off, in the original oak boards, covered with stamped pigskin, £2. 5s Tiibeck, 8. Arnd. 1507 This scarce edition is in Platt-Deutsch like the two preceding, but has several additional legends including even contemporary matter. 1027 [H1reronymo (S.)] Incominciano le virE pe Sanotr Panprt per diversi elo- quentissimi doctori vulgarizate, smallest folio, First Hdition with date, in double columns, first and last leaves worn and mended, and without the table which should occupy the last seven leaves, bds.7s 6d Venettis, 1475 1028 VoLesrtzzAMENTO DELLE VITE DE’ SANTI PADRIi, (di S. Hieronimo) (opera scritta nel buon secolo della lingua Italiana, pubblicata con note da D. M. Mawnnt) 4& vols. in 2, 4ito. vellum, fine copy, 36s Firenze, 1731-85