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HEROLT, Johannes / GUILIELMUS Parisiensis

Postilla Guillermi super Epistolas et Evangelia per totius anni

Basel
Adam Petri de Langendorff
1511

€1.200 - €1.600

2 parts in 1 vol. in-4to, viii, 186, iv ff ; 39, [1] ff, With title with woodcut in red and black, 1 title with wide figurative woodcut border and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, by Urs Graf (1485-1527). Old manuscript notes on pastedowns. Contemporary calf binding, with blindtooling, on wooden boards, some tears in spine

Fol. 56/57 with the first Hebrew letters printed in Hebrew type cast in Basel. Herolt's commentary on the Gospels was printed in numerous editions around this time. Herolt, a Dominican who died in 1468, was one of the best selling authors of the first century of printing. But this specific edition is very scarce.
Ref. VD16 E 4381 / B 4701

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