Description:
Guilelmus Parisiensis (1437-1485) Postille Maiores in Epistolas et Evangelia, [bound with] Daniel Agricola's Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi. Basel: Petrus de Langendorff, 1514. Quarto, first title page printed in red and black within large hand-colored woodcut compartment, full page woodcut on the verso of the prologue also colored, along with the dozens of small woodcuts throughout the text, some preliminary material printed in roman type, the rest in black letter, with a compartment of text in the center of the page surrounded by glosses in smaller type in two columns; the second title also with a large hand-colored woodcut and smaller hand-colored vignette woodcuts throughout, the two bound in full contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, tooled in blind, with catches and clasps intact, spine painted white in a previous period, with shelf marks; ex libris Glenclyffe, a former Capuchin monastery in Harrison, New York; with several contemporary ink inscriptions on title, preliminary leaves, and scattered fairly consistently throughout the text, 8 x 6 in.
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Estimate $1,000-1,500
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