1495 INCUNABULA 2 VOLUMES SET BONAVENTURE antique ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS incunable

Bonaventura  (Bonaventure)



Opuscula.

Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1495



2 volumes,

Chancery folio (283 x 196mm.)

 part I: 380 leaves, [*8] 2-46 a b8 c–f6.8 g h6 i–y8.6 z8 A–M6.8 N–Q6 R–Y8.6 Z8 AA6 BB8 CC DD6 EE8

part II: 370 leaves, 2A8 B C6 aa bb8 cc–qq6.8 rr–tt6 vv–zz8.62AA–QQ8.6 RR SS6 TT–YY8.6 ZZ8 Aaa–Eee6

 double column, 52 lines plus headline and foliations

"I-CCCLV" (I, fos a1-EE7), and "I-CCCXLIX" (II, fos 2A1-EEE6)

 gothic type, initial spaces, 4 woodcut illustrations,

a few contemporary marginal notes,

cancellation of lines of text, and nota signs (including maniculae) in brown ink throughout,

contemporary blind-stamped Italian sheep over wooden boards,

Size 8 by 11"

paper labels on spines,

two clasps, bindings worn and repaired,

lacking straps

Text in Latin


PROVENANCE

- possibly the Franciscan Capuchins of the convent of Santa Margherita in Cortona, their late fifteenth-century inscriptions on title: "Iste liber fuit est et erit ad usum fratris Alexandri de Cortona [?]" (fols [*1r], 2A1r); "Iste liber pertinet ad locum sancte Margheritae de Cortona [--] / [--] fratris [Alexandri] [--]" (fos EE8v, EEE6v)

- Sotheby's Auction, London
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Bonaventure, OFM (Italian: Bonaventura da Bagnoregio , Latin: Bonaventura de Balneoregio;
born Giovanni di Fidanza; 1221 – 15 July 1274)
was an Italian Catholic Franciscan bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher.

The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he also served for a time as Bishop of Albano.
He was canonised on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1588 by Pope Sixtus V.
He is known as the "Seraphic Doctor" (Latin: Doctor Seraphicus).
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