Religion & Devotion

ARIAS MONTANUS, Benito (editor). Novum testamentum Graecum.
[Geneva], Petrus de la Rouière, 1619.
With: (2) PAGNINI, Sante (translator) and Benito ARIAS MONTANUS (editor). Biblia Hebraica eorundem Latina interpretatio ...
[Geneva], Petrus de la Rouière, 1618. 2 works in 1 volume, both in 4 parts. Folio. With numerous decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces, the work is printed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew type. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with remnants of closing ties, red gauffered edges. [8], 271, [1 blank], [50], [2 blank], [4], 70, [2 blank], 167, [1 blank]; 183, [1], 283, [1 blank], 84, 203, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ARNAULD D'ANDILLY, Angélique de Saint Jean. Relations sur la vie de la Reverende mere Angelique de Sainte Magdelaine Arnauld, ou receüil de la mere Angelique de Saint Jean Arnauld d'Audilly, sur la vie de sa tante la mere Marie-Angelique de Sainte Magdelaine Arnauld, & sur la réforme des abbayes de Port-Royal, Maubuisson & autres, faite par cette Sainte Abbisse.
With: (2) ARNAULD, Angélique de Sainte Magdelaine. Mémoires pour servir à la vie de la R. Mëre Marie Angélique de Sainte Magdelaine Arnauld, reformatrice de Port Royal.
[France], 1737. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with red morocco title-label, marbled edges and marbled endpapers. VII, 291; IV, 145 pp. Full description

ARNOBIUS and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). Arnobii aphri, vetusti pariter ac laudatissimi scriptoris in omneis palmos co[m]mentarii, iuxta pij atq[ue] eruditi. Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Commentarius in psalmum, quare fremuerunt gentes.Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1522. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut frame on the title page, and 2 smaller woodcut frames on the first pages of the texts, and 5 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with armorial panel-stamps. Sewn on 4 supports, with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with remnants of 4 pairs of green closing ties, re-backed. [166], [36] ll. Full description

[ASSAROTTI, Ottavio Giovanno Battista]. Dottrina Christiana. [Manuscript in Italian].
[Genoa, ca. 1815/20]. 8vo. With 117 (of 118) full-page hand-coloured drawings, each in a frame of double rules (20.5 x 14 cm), with lively illustrations of the Christian doctrine, and text in Italian. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. 117 (of 118), [3 blank] ll., including the last 3 blanks. Full description

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE). De la cita d'Dio.
[Venice?, Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, ca. 1477? (not after 1483)]. Folio. Printed in two columns, each 47 lines, with spaces for 3-6 line initials left blank. Early 19th-century gold-tooled calf. [1 blank], [322], [1 blank] ll. Full description

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE), Desiderius ERASMUS (editor), and others. Primus [- decimus] tomus eximii patris, inter summa latinae ecclesiae ornamenta ac lumina principis, D. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi ...
Basel, Ambrosius & Aurelius Froben, 1569. 11 parts in 10 volumes. Folio (38 x 25.5 cm). With the general title page in volume 1 set within an elaborate woodcut frame, all other title pages show the large woodcut Froben printer's device, repeated on all but one verso of the final page in each part. Further with woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary half elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 5 supports (volume 1 on 4), with two brass clasps on the fore edge (leather anchor plate, brass clasp and catch plate). With the manuscript titles on the spines and the contents of each volume in manuscript on the bottom edge of all but one volume. Probably bound by Michael Hermann in Stuttgart before 1580. Full description

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE). Explanatio Psalmorum. [Incipit:] Annotatio principaliu[m] sententiariu[m]/ principaliu[m] sente[n]tiariu[m] in expla-natione psamo[rum]...
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1489. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 31 x 21.5 cm).
Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with 1 brass clasp and remnants of a 2nd. [1 blank], [14], [1 blank]; [146]; [192]; [192], [5 blank] ll. Full description

AUGUSTINUS DE LEONISSA. Sermones pulcherrimi sup[er] d[omi]nica[m] or[ati]o[n]em Pater noster & angelicam salutat[i]o[n]em Ave Maria. Unicuiq[ue] ad populu[m] vole[n]ti declamat[i]o[n]es facere acco[m]modati. editi p[er] venera[n]du[m] patre[m] Augustinu[m] de Leonissa ...
(Colophon: Cologne, heirs of Heinrich Quentel, 1505). With 3 decorated woodcut initials, many 3-line and 2 larger Lombardic initials. With the first decorated initial hand coloured, and rubricated throughout.
With: (2) BONAVENTURA, Saint (pseudo). Sermo[n]es Quattuor novissimorum perutiles et n[e]cc[ess]arii. unu[m]que[m]que in devot[i]o[n]is ardorem dei quam timore[m] i[n]ducentes. a Beato Bonaventura editi.
(Colophon : Cologne), [Cornelis de Zierikzee, ca. 1502]. With a small woodcut of Christ at the Last Judgement on the title-page framed by 4 decorative woodcut strip borders, a full-page woodcut of King David meeting Christ at the Last Judgement (repeated at the end), a few 3-line Lombardic initials and spaces left for a few larger manuscript initials (not filled in). 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (14.5 x 10.5 cm). Modern blind-tooled brown goatskin morocco. [92]; [128] ll. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. MELANCHTHON, Philipp. [Autograph letter, signed, from Philipp Melanchthon to Sebastian Boetius].
[Wittenberg], Easter [14 April 1555]. Folio (19.5 x 32 cm). In Latin. [2] pp. Full description

AVILA Y ZUÑIGA, Luis de, and Willem van MALE (translator). Commentariorum de bello Germanico, à Carolo V. … gesto, libri duo à Gulielmo Malinaeo Brugensi latinè redditi, & iconibus ad historiam accommodis illustrati.
Antwerp, In aedibus Joannes Steelsius, 1550. 8vo. With the printer's device of Joannes Steelsius on the title page, 4 woodcut illustrations (a folding view, a double-page map, a double-page view, and a full-page view), and a full-page woodcut coat of arms of Emperor Charles V on the final page. Contemporary blind-tooled brown calf, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a paper shelfmark label ("P) in the top compartment and the manuscript number "4" in white ink in the compartment below, the coat of arms of Christopher Popel the elder of Lobcowicz (1513-1590) in the centre of the front board with the initials "C. B. A. L. Ae. A" and the motto "Insigniae" above, and the date "MDLIII" below, surrounded by an ornamental and triple fillet border, on the back a cross built up from four fleur-de-lis ornaments framed by the same border, 4 green closing ties. [8], 144 ll. Full description