GREGORIUS I Dialogorum libri quattuor. Basel, M. Furter, 4to: [ff., ll. (toned, some marg. dampstaining). 19th-c. quarter cloth, marbl. paper covers, gilt flat spine (rubbed, sl. loosening at end, a smaller work taken out of the binding?). Very good copy. Later incunable ed. (1st of the popular Dialogues of Pope Gregory I or Gregory the Great (540-604). It is a collection of four books of miracles, signs, wonders, and healings done by the holy men, mostly monastic, of 6th-c. Italy, with the 2nd book entirely devoted to a popular life of St Benedict. Printed in gothic type, in 2 columns. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Rubricated throughout with penwork extending into inner margin. Ref. ISTC ig- GW - Goff G-- Polain - BMC III:- BSB-Ink G-- Not in CIBN. Prov. Old ownership entries on title, i.a. "Carmeli Freystadiani Anno 1730". - Collector’s stamp Ex Bibliotheca Hoffmanni Fallerslebens, i.e. the German poet and politician August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874), author of the "Deutschandlied" (national anthem of Germany). - Mod. bookpl. JFMS[terck], i.e. the Dutch collector and literary historian J.F.M. Sterck (1859-1941). - [Georges Petit].
GREGORIUS I Dialogorum libri quattuor. Basel, M. Furter, 4to: [ff., ll. (toned, some marg. dampstaining). 19th-c. quarter cloth, marbl. paper covers, gilt flat spine (rubbed, sl. loosening at end, a smaller work taken out of the binding?). Very good copy. Later incunable ed. (1st of the popular Dialogues of Pope Gregory I or Gregory the Great (540-604). It is a collection of four books of miracles, signs, wonders, and healings done by the holy men, mostly monastic, of 6th-c. Italy, with the 2nd book entirely devoted to a popular life of St Benedict. Printed in gothic type, in 2 columns. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Rubricated throughout with penwork extending into inner margin. Ref. ISTC ig- GW - Goff G-- Polain - BMC III:- BSB-Ink G-- Not in CIBN. Prov. Old ownership entries on title, i.a. "Carmeli Freystadiani Anno 1730". - Collector’s stamp Ex Bibliotheca Hoffmanni Fallerslebens, i.e. the German poet and politician August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874), author of the "Deutschandlied" (national anthem of Germany). - Mod. bookpl. JFMS[terck], i.e. the Dutch collector and literary historian J.F.M. Sterck (1859-1941). - [Georges Petit].
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