HIERONYMUS. C.342-420.
Epistole sancti hieronymi. Lyon: Nicolas de Benedictis for Jacques Sacon, 1513.
Epistole sancti hieronymi. Lyon: Nicolas de Benedictis for Jacques Sacon, 1513.
3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (300 x 205 mm). Woodcut border on main title page, woodcut frontispiece before main text of first part, repeated again as frontispiece for the second part. Modern calf antique with brass fittings and clasps, quarter calf clamshell box. Lower edges re-margined throughout with some minor loss of text, some dampstaining and spotting, old ink marginalia.
Featuring a full-page woodcut frontispiece, appearing twice, of St. Jerome removing a thorn from a lion's paw, which was copied from an earlier woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, from the 1492 Basel edition. Baudrier, III, p 333.
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Epistole sancti hieronymi. Lyon: Nicolas de Benedictis for Jacques Sacon, 1513.
Epistole sancti hieronymi. Lyon: Nicolas de Benedictis for Jacques Sacon, 1513.
3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (300 x 205 mm). Woodcut border on main title page, woodcut frontispiece before main text of first part, repeated again as frontispiece for the second part. Modern calf antique with brass fittings and clasps, quarter calf clamshell box. Lower edges re-margined throughout with some minor loss of text, some dampstaining and spotting, old ink marginalia.
Featuring a full-page woodcut frontispiece, appearing twice, of St. Jerome removing a thorn from a lion's paw, which was copied from an earlier woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, from the 1492 Basel edition. Baudrier, III, p 333.
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