HOLKOT, Robertus (1290-1349). Super sapientiam Salomonis. Reutlingen: Johann Otmar, 1489.
HOLKOT, Robertus (1290-1349). Super sapientiam Salomonis. Reutlingen: Johann Otmar, 1489.
Fifth edition of a popular commentary on the Book of Wisdom. Holkot’s commentary is cited as an important influence on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. HC *8760; GW 12887; BMC II 587; Bod-inc H-132; BSB-Ink H-314; ISTC ih00292000; Goff H-292.
Chancery folio (274 x 198 mm). 290 leaves, with the last blank, initials in red, the first with penwork decoration in the border featuring birds, a bearded face, and a fly (several leaves faintly waterstained, wormholes in quires a-d and p onwards touching some letters, lacking upper portion of blank). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (a few tears to spine, some wormholes, lacking clasps). Provenance: Passau monastery? (inscription on title) – contemporary and later marginal annotations by at least two different hands – Munich, Royal Library (‘Duplum’).
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HOLKOT, Robertus (1290-1349). Super sapientiam Salomonis. Reutlingen: Johann Otmar, 1489.
Fifth edition of a popular commentary on the Book of Wisdom. Holkot’s commentary is cited as an important influence on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. HC *8760; GW 12887; BMC II 587; Bod-inc H-132; BSB-Ink H-314; ISTC ih00292000; Goff H-292.
Chancery folio (274 x 198 mm). 290 leaves, with the last blank, initials in red, the first with penwork decoration in the border featuring birds, a bearded face, and a fly (several leaves faintly waterstained, wormholes in quires a-d and p onwards touching some letters, lacking upper portion of blank). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (a few tears to spine, some wormholes, lacking clasps). Provenance: Passau monastery? (inscription on title) – contemporary and later marginal annotations by at least two different hands – Munich, Royal Library (‘Duplum’).
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