Leonardus de Utino's Sermones quadragesimales de legibus dicti

Leonardus de Utino's Sermones quadragesimales de legibus dicti
Peter Drach, 1479
LEONARDUS DE UTINO (c.1400-1469). Sermones quadragesimales de legibus dicti. Speyer: Peter Drach, 23 June 1479.

1479 Speyer edition, in a contemporary pigskin binding. H 16120*; BMC II 490; BSB-Ink L-123; Bod-inc L-076; Goff L-147; ISTC il00147000.

Royal folio (391 x 285mm). 350 leaves. Large and small red initials, red capital strokes, small woodcut printer’s device (first and last blanks heavily repaired, many leaves repaired at gutter; dampstaining and a little worming; some leaves a little soiled or chipped). Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, bosses, straps and catchplates (pastedowns renewed, some restorations, lacking one boss). Provenance: Robert Walsingham Martin (1871-1961; bookplate; his sale, Parke-Bernet, 12 November 1963, lot 115).