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(Religion, Moeurs) - GERSON, Johannes.- Secu[n]da pars operu[m]. [Late 15th century]. In-f° : [13] lvs (wormholes in the text in the first four lvs, marginal dampstains, 1 quire partly detached). Sewed in a 18th century laid paper sheet. Extract from an incunabulum edition of the "Opera omnia" dealing with "de pollutione nocturna" and the way to confess young people, with onanism and also with the chastity of ecclesiastics. Gerson is the first to be the most inflexible with boys, in particular children, guilty of onanism. Title within a large ornamental border and illustrated with a full-page figuring a pilgrim passing a castle completely different to the plate in the Opera edition of 1494 attributed to Albrecht Dürer Compare to that plate, the pilgrim in our extract is old, he holds the coat of arms (showing the sun, moon, stars and a winged heart with the letter "T" on it, i.e. Saint Anthony's cross (?)) in the left hand instead the right and the staff in the right instead the left. There are also an archange added, more details and the dog is hairy in our plate. Are added in this extract a portrait from another work and the name "Joannis Gerson" on the first leaf, cancels correcting the foliotation and one at the colophon specifying the end of the treatises. Gerson (1363-1429) was a renowned French theologian named "Doctor Christianissimus" and chancellor of the University of Paris. ¶ Extrait du vol. II d'une édition des oeuvres de Gerson, traitant d'ONANISME et du DEVOIR DE CHASTETÉ des ecclésiastiques. Titre dans un encadrement ornementé, pleine p. figurant un pèlerin, portrait de Gerson collé au 1er feuillet. Avec des papillons corrigeant la foliotation et un au colophon. Broché (mouill. marg.). Drouotlive.com Read more