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Eusebius: (La vita el transito) 1487

Two North American copies.

658J. Eusebius -(275-339)

(La vita el transito) Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De Miraculis Hieronymi).

[Venice, Hannibal Foxius, 1 June 1487].               $7,000

Octavo 16.7x12cm. Signatures: a–i8. 72 leaves, 36 lines, Roman letter, rubricated with capital letters in red ink. Several annotations in ink and marginal notes, first leaf mounted, 5 leaves, small wormholes touching the letters on the front edge of 4 leaves, 2 intermediate margins reinforced with old paper strips, small worming marks on 4 leaves. – Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label “Transito di San Gerolamo, Venetia, 1487”

This collection of pseudonymous works are now considered to have been composed anonymously in the thirteenth or fourteenth century by Dominicans in Rome. These Epistles here attributed to threefamous Bishops who were contemporaries of St Jerome Eusebius of Cremona 347-420, Augustine ofHippo 354- 430 and Cyril of Jerusalem 313-386.,

ISTC ih00257000; Goff H257; H8645*;

GW 9466]. 

 United States:

Walters Library & Huntington Library. ONLY

ntritter, and is believed to have been printed using funds provided by Santritter, as was Paulus Pergulensis’s Compendium logicae printed by E. Ratdolt in 1481. It includes the two-color printing and table-style printing at which Ratdolt excelled. Santritter himself was a printer, and there are five known titles of incunabula that he printed.

Goff H257; H 8645*; IGI 3743; Hunt 2881; Bod-inc E-060; Sheppard 4095; Pr 5014; BSB-Ink E-126; GW 9466

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Two Incunabula bound together. One located in only four copies worldwide!

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f 180v: [Et ego reſuſci—||tabo eum in nouiſſimo die] quo ad coꝛpus vt ſimul gaudeat|| in coꝛpore et in anima. 

 Poſtilla ſuper epiſtolis et euangelijs dominicalibus feſt||uitatibus ac de ſanctis per anni ciꝛculum ſecūdum ſenſum||litteralem collecta feliciter Explicit.

[Vienne: Eberhard Frommolt. not before 1480] ( Date and assignment to printer by GW)

Chanclery  Folio. 26.8 x 18 cm. signatures: [a–x⁸ y-z⁶]. 179 of 180 leaves 40 lines  Lacking the initial blank. Three-to six-line capital spaces, with guide letters. Six-line opening text initial supplied in red, capital strokes.  In this edition the comentaries are pinted within the text  controled by brackets. Many initials supplied in red. 

“More than one hundred editions of the Postilla super epistolas et evangelia by Guillermus Parisiensis were printed during the fifteenth century. Surely this esteemed compilation must be regarded as one of the earliest ‘best sellers’, for how else can one explain why the text was not only frequently reprinted but was reissued time and time again by the same printer. The introduction to the Postilla, his only published work, tells us that he was a Dominican and a professor of sacred theology at Paris. This compilation of the Postilla was written down in 1437 expressly for members of the clergy and for those desirous of understanding the excerpts from the Epistles and the Evangelists, more commonly called lessons, which are read at appropriate services throughout the church year. It obviously filled a most pressing need” (Goff, “The Postilla of Guillermus Parisiensis,” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1959, p. 73).

Thirteen titles are assigned to Frommolt. Of the present edition, only four copies are known three in France with Only one in the US at Brown University which came from the Southwark Diocesan Archives, London.

OF PRINTINGS BY FROMMOLT THERE ONLY 13 COPIES OF ANY OF HIS TITLES, REPRESENTING 6 TITLES ANDONLY 8 INSTITUTIONS.

GW 11926.; ISTC ig00654800. ;Pellechet 5641. ; Copinger 2861. 

• World wide Holdings: 
• France: Beaune BM, Besançon BM, Colmar BM 
• United States  Brown Univ. ONLY 
• Number of holding institutions 4

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Johannes de Turrecremata, (1388-1468) NICOLAUS DE BYARD (fl. c.1300).

Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis. & [Dictionarius pauperum:] Flos theologiae sive Summa de abstinentia. ; 2 parts in 1 volume.

Incipit materia aurea enucleata ex originalib[us] virtutu[m] et vitioru[m], Flos theologi[a]e nu[n]cupata, [secundu]m ordine[m] alphabeti pro sermonib[us] applicabilis tam de tempore q[uam] de sanctis totius anni.

  [Basel: Johann Amerbach, [ A copy at Frankfurt am Main has rubricator’s date 28 Sept. 1481] 

 Price $35,000

Chanclery  Folio. 26.8 x 18 cm.  [350].f ;   1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5⁸ A^10/8-L¹⁰ M^{12 (Flos)} π⁸, a^10/8-v⁸ x⁶

ISTC it00553000; Goff T553 ; BMC III 747; GW M48236 ; HC 15714* ; Pell Ms 11270; Polain(B) 3869 ; IDL 4519 ; IBE 5680 ; IGI 9889 ; Sheppard 2414 ; Pr 7566 ; BSB T-568 

Bound in later full calf over wooden boards.                                 

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•   US Holdings 
• Collection of the late Phyllis and John Gordan, New York NY (BMawrCL?)
• Columbia University, 
• Cornell Univ. 
• Free Library of Philadelphia, 
• Library of Congress, 
• Huntington Library
• Southern Methodist 
• Stanford Univ. Library
• Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
• Washington Univ. 
• Yale 

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SUSO 573J

573J  Henricus Suso. (1295-1366)

 Horologium aeternae sapientiae.

573J  Henricus Suso. (1295-1366)

 Horologium aeternae sapientiae.

Cologne: Johann Landen, December 1500/1501. PRICE. SOLD

Octavo, 13.4 x 10cm. Signatures A-Q⁸. In this copy there are lombard initials in red and blue, one with dog-head decoration, red capital strokes, paragraph marks, and underlining. 

A Woodcut appears three times, on title, title verso, and verso of final leaf (margin of f. 2 slightly extended, occasional damp stains at gutter and edges, a few leaves in gathering O stained and one with short closed tear). Bound in modern vellum with manuscript antiphonal leaf reused as pastedowns. 

No copies of this edition are recorded at auction by ABPC or RBH.

 VD16 S 6103; ISTC is00876500; Goldschmidt p. 135. See Ford BPH 177 (first edition) and 178 (fourth edition). [APA citation. McMahon, A. (1910). Blessed Henry Suso. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved April 27, 2022 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07238c.htm%5D

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Holdings: GermanyWuppertal StB & Russia Moscow, [Russian State Library] Rossijskaja Gosudarstvennaja Biblioteka (Berlin copy). Number of holding institutions 2. 

Last Edit2016-07-13 12:00:00.00.

The German Mystics of the fourteenth century, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler and Heinrich Suso, seemed to be constantly Willing the ability of Unwillingness. Perhaps Eckhart is the most profoundly speculatively blunt so much so that he was accused of heresy and brought up before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition, and tried as a heretic but died before a verdict. Tauler intern provides neo-platonic richness and logic to this position. Suso’s is to explore the territory through emotion. Suso’s first books , Büchlein der Wahrheit (Little Book of Truth) and Das Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit (The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom) were written in German and structured as instructions and explanations for Beginners as well as a defense and adaptation of Eckharts spiritual views. 

Eckhart tells us : “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning”

Likewise Suso writes of himself in his Autobiography “The inward impulse, which he had received 8from God, urged him to turn away entirely from every thing which might be a hindrance to him. The tempter met this with the suggestion:—Bethink thee better. ” (First printed Cologne A.D. 1535.) Suso proceeds to expose the interior to the elements and deals with in good spirit. The Clock of Eternal Wisdom, (edited by Elsbeth Stagel) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsbeth_Stagel ] exhibits not only faith but trust in the unknown, Like Walter Hilton before him, and Thomas à Kempis after him, Suso dwells poetically and thoughtfully on the frustrations and disappointments as well as spiritualising ways of dealing with them by servitude to that which is beyond perception.

Suso Belongs in the Higherarchy of Great books 

of internal spiritual quest along with 

Boethius, Dante and à Kempis

VD16 S 6103; ISTC is00876500; Goldschmidt p. 135. See Ford BPH 177 (first edition) and 178 (fourth edition). [APA citation. McMahon, A. (1910). Blessed Henry Suso. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved April 27, 2022 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/ cathen/07238c.htm%5D

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Holdings: GermanyWuppertal StB & RussiaMoscow, [Russian State Library] Rossijskaja Gosudarstvennaja Biblioteka (Berlin copy). Number of holding institutions 2.

https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/49179/PhD-Flaeten.pdf?sequence=1

Horologium sapientiae is an intense work of religious fiction. It is written by a man of unique literary talent and religious fervor. The Horologium is the product of a religious culture that that was under pressure, a culture pervaded by eschatological anticipation and religious anxiety. However, the work is also an example of how this culture produced new and innovative forms of popular theol- ogy that provided relief to pious minds. This study will argue that Suso’s ap- proaches may be seen as a pioneering effort of late medieval ‘theology of piety.’ This concept, developed by German scholars, enables appreciative and accurate analysis of certain types of theological literature from the later medieval period that does not easily answer to categories such as ‘scholastic’ or ‘mystical’ or ‘monastic’ theology.

Most scholars think that the Horologium sapientiae was completed in 1333 or 1334.16 As mentioned, it is a considerably ‘expanded version’ of Suso’s Middle High German work, the “Little Book of Eternal Wisdom,” Buchlein der ewigen weisheit (Bdew).17 The Bdew was in its own right a popular and widely transmit- ted work, however not on the same scale as the Horologium. The two books have most parts in common: with the Horologium, Suso adopted (and expanded) most of the German version. They are based on the same fundamental idea and structur- ing principle: the spiritual beginner, the Servant (diener) in the Bdew or the Disci- ple (discipulus) in the Horologium, in dialogue with Eternal Wisdom, a female character that is presented as the “sum of everything that is good.” Suso draws on an ancient tradition of philosophical dialogues with Sapientia, the female ‘principle of wisdom’ as seen above all in the work of Boethius.18 For the protagonist, who is a figure of identification for the reader,19 the dialogue is a process of spir- itual edification and also a lover-beloved relationship in the fashion of bridal mysticism that was so popular since the time of Bernard of Clairvaux.

” Suso studied in Cologne under Johannes Futerer and the more famous Meis-
ter Eckhart, who made a strong impact. Besides this stay in Cologne, and perhaps
studies in Strassbourg, Suso seems to have spent most of his life in or around
Constance and, from about 1348, in the city of Ulm. As a Dominican friar, he
spent much of his professional life in the service of the cura monialium, the pasto-
ral care for nuns. This meant some travelling to female Dominican convents in
this area. Suso developed a close friendship with Elsbeth Stagel, a nun at the
convent of Töss, for whom he was also confessor. Stagel is also known as one of the primary authors of the Töss Sister-Book, and was relatively well educated (for a woman in this period) and, like Suso, she appears to have been of a fervent religious personality; the relationship between Suso and Stagel was also a literary collaboration. Stagel was responsible for collecting the letters that would become Suso’s Briefbuchlein (Bfb), and she may also have contributed to parts of Suso’s Vita, where she also appears in person, as the “spiritual daughter” of the Servant (Suso). The pastoral care for nuns provided Suso with both the material and pur- pose for much of his literary production.
For a period during the 1340’s Suso was prior at the female convent of St.
Katherinenthal / Diessenhofen. A main reason for this stay was that the Domini- cans of the Inselkloster in Constance were forced into exile from the city as a result of a papal interdict. This interdict was the culmination of a conflict between John XXII and the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria. It is widely agreed upon that it is this conflict that gave Suso the material for the dramatic vision of “the ram,” the tyrant leader who persecutes a small flock of devout friends of God, in chapter five of Book II of the Horologium” (New Readings of Heinrich Suso’s Horologium sapientiae Jon Øygarden Flæten)

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4 Several biographical outlines are easily accessed. See the comprehensive introductions given in Bihlmeyer (1907/61) and Künzle (1977). Shorter and more recent accounts are usually based upon these two. See Colledge (1994); Haas (1996), pp. 9-24; McGinn (2005a), pp. 197-204.
5 This and the following information about Suso’s life are based upon Bihlmeyer’s account (1907/61), pp. 63*-150*, if not otherwise stated.
6 See Bihlmeyer (1907/61), pp. 66-7. Seuse, which he is known as in German speaking countries, is a later form that appears first in a fifteenth century print. See Ruh (1996), 417.
7 See Vita 62.32-63.6; see also Bihlmeyer’s comments (1907/61), pp. 72-3*.

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A Sammelband of Devotio moderna.

553Ji. Gérard de Vliederhoven   &   553Jii  Guido de Monte Rochen.                                    

553Ji. Gérard de Vliederhoven

 Cordiale quattuor novissimorum.  (Memorare nouissima tua.)

Köln, Konrad Winters, de Homborch, about 1482.                                                                                                        Price $9,000

Quarto  22 x15 ½ cm. signatures : a–f⁸g-h⁶ i⁸  [68 leaves  Two works bound  in one. I. Heavily browned, some old annotations, first leaves somewhat loose. Annotation, monastic ownership inscription and stamp to first blank. II. Browned, slight worming to last leaves. Annotations to first leaf, monastic stamp to title and last leaf. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blindstamped in Koberger style; rubbed, some worming, tear to spine, head of spine repaired, rebacked preserving original spine, lacking clasp.

Gerard Vliederhoven , confessor and curator of the Commandery Teutonic of Utrecht , is an active mystical writer at the turn of XIV and xv th  centuries . With his colleague Johann van der Sande, brother cellar , he showed constant loyalty to Commander Gerhard Splinter Uten Enghe, when from 1380 the latter tried to restore discipline within the Order [ 1 ] . We do not know anything about the origins and life of Gérard, although like Denys the Carthusian , he is one of the main representatives of edifying literature.of his century. His treatise Quartet novissima examines the four terms of Christian life, namely Death, Judgment of souls, Hell and Heaven. Very widely distributed from the beginning of the 15th century under the title of Cordiale quattuor novissimorum or, more briefly, the Cordiale , it shows how the attention paid to these four terms allows the faithful to guard against sins. 

This work has had a profound influence on the eschatological thought of the followers of the Devotio moderna . Several monasteries instituted the common reading of the Cordiale and we know from the chronicler Jean Busch that it was read at the abbey of Windesheim during meals. Jean Miélottranslated it into French under the title Les quattres things derrenieres .

1. Goff C888; [ United States one copy located, Bryn Mawr College] ; Cop. 1772; GW 7478; BMC I, 249;  Voulliéme, Köln 452. 

 Bound with           553Jii Guido de Monte Rochen.

 Manipulus curatorum. (Manipulus curatoꝛū. officia ſacerdotu ſcdʾm oꝛdinē ſeptē ſacramētoꝝperbꝛeuiter plectēs.) 

Straßburg, Martin Flach 10. Mai, 1487. 

Signatures . a–o⁸p¹⁰ 121 leaves, Bound with the above.   Guido de Monte Rochen or Guy de Montrocher was a Spanish priest and jurist who was active around 1331. He is best known as the author of Manipulus curatorum (the manual of the curate), this is a handbook for parish priests, probably first written in the first half of the fourteenth century it was often copied, with some 180 complete or partial manuscripts surviving, and later reprinted throughout Europe in the next 200 years. 

First printed in 1473, with at least 119 printings, and sales which have been estimated to be three times those of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica.(Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late Medieval and Reformation History …edited by Robert James Bast, Andrew Colin Gow, Heiko Augustinus Oberman) It became obsolete only when the Council of Trent created the Roman Catechism in 1566.

On the Verso of the first blank and verso of the last leaf of the Cordiale(553Ji.) leaf a¹ and leaf  i⁸v there are a lot of very nice (and easily visible ) impressions of un inked large capitals used for bearer type.

–II. Goff G593.; Hain-C.-R. 8194; GW 11815; BMC I, 147; Katharine Lualdi & Anne Thayer (2007) Guido de Monte Rochen’s Manipulus Curatorum, Medieval Sermon Studies, 51:1, 80, DOI: 10.1179/136606907X216995

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Thomas Aquinas on Sacrament of Penance ca. 1493.

563J Thomas Aquinas

Quaestiones junta doctrina circa confessionem seu Sacramentum poenitentiae.

[Rome : Johann Besicken, about 1493-94]. Collijn assigns this to Guldinbeck. PRICE $4,500

Octavo 19 x 13.5 cm Signatures : a⁸ Fol. 8 blank and present. Old bibliographies assigned this to Plannck, later revised to Besicken.  Bound in later quarter vellum. Institutional stamp and numbers on the first leaf. With the bookplate of the Library of the college of New Rochell the gift of James Edward Tobin. with call numbers in pencil and number in pen and debased stamp on the title. 

VERY RARE ISTC cites only 9 copies; 1 in the US at Yale. 

“Quaestiones circa confessionem seu Sacramentum poenitentiae” translates to “Questions regarding confession or the Sacrament of Penance” in Latin, This text is extracted from the Summa Theologica where St. Thomas discusses various aspects of the Catholic sacrament of confession, including its nature, necessity, and proper practice.

Besicken worked at Basel in 1483, and at Rome from 1493 until 1510, partly with various partners. Most of the woodcut capitals employed by Besicken and his partners are black ground capitals some with foliage decorations and others with branch-work; all enclosed in a frame line which form squares in the corners. The present incunable has such an example on a1. His imprints are generally rare. 

Reference works.  Goff T325; R 395; Mich 341; IBE 1729; IGI 3151; IBP 1681; SI 3781; Coll(S) 1410; Martín Abad T-106; Borm 810; GW 7350

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658J	Eusebius 1487	https://jamesgray2.me/2025/02/03/eusebius-la-vita-el-transito-1487/	https://data.cerl.org/istc/ih00257000	München imperfect	‡
444Ji	Guillermus Paris1480	https://jamesgray2.me/2024/01/24/two-incunabula-bound-together-one-located-in-only-four-copies-worldwide/	https://data.cerl.org/istc/ig00654800	No copies in DE	‡‡
573J	Suso 1500/1	https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/24/suso-573j/	https://data.cerl.org/istc/is00876500	No copies in DE	‡‡‡
553Ji	Cordale 1482	https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/22/a-sammelband-of-devotio-moderna-2/	https://data.cerl.org/istc/ic00888000	No BSB München	‡‡‡‡
563J	Thomas Aquinas 1493±	https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/20/thomas-aquinas-on-sacrament-of-penance-ca-1493/	https://data.cerl.org/istc/it00325000	No BSB München	‡‡‡‡‡