Antonio da Brescia | Savonarola, and other works, 1485-1503, later half calf

Antonio da Brescia, Girolamo Savonarola, Bernardus de Lutzenburgo and Guilelmus de Gouda

A volume containing sermons, commentaries on Psalms, an illustrated tract on the Jubilee of 1500, and a short treatise on the Mass, 1485-1503, comprising:

ANTONIO DA BRESCIA. Sermones aurei quadragesimales una cum sermonibus de sanctis. (Brescia: Angelo Britannico, 14 and 15 April 1503), 2 parts, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device beneath each colophon, with final blank to each section (the first blank stained), some early marginal annotations (trimmed), first leaf slightly soiled

GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA. Expositio in Psalmum L (51) "Miserere mei Deus". Magdeburg: [Moritz Brandis, not before 1500], 12 leaves

GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA. Expositio in Psalmum XXX (31) "In te Domine speravi". Magdeburg: [Moritz Brandis, not before 1500], 8 leaves (of 10, lacking b3-4)

BERNARDUS DE LUTZENBURGO. Opusculum quotlibeticum de jubileo per archiducae Austriae et Burgundiae. (Antwerp: Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 8 May 1501), 16 leaves, A-B⁶ C⁴, woodcut illustrations on title-page, woodcut of the Virgin and Child with St Dominic on A1v and C4V

GUILELMUS DE GOUDA. Expositio mysteriorum missae. [Deventer]: Jacobus de Breda, [1485-87], 30 leaves, a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁸, 28 lines, gothic type, with final blank leaf, early annotations

5 works in one volume, 4to (185 x 140mm.), recent leather-backed purple buckram, red edges, slightly rubbed, upper hinge cracked between first two leaves of first work

Antonio da Brescia (died 1498) was a Dominican preacher and inquisitor, as was Bernard of Luxemburg (died in Cologne in 1535). The final work in the volume, a liturgical handbook by the Observant friar Willem van Gouda (c. 1455-c. 1490), was first printed in 1484 and regularly reissued.

PROVENANCE:

Benedictine monastery of St Godehard, Hildesheim, inscription on first title-page

LITERATURE:

(1) Edit16 2105

(2) ISTC is00214500

(3) ISTC is00206500

(4) USTC 410037 (listing 3 copies) & Nijhoff-Kronenberg 297

(5) ISTC ig00619600 (though ISTC records the Ampleforth copy as ig00619700)