BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux)
Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et de diversis
Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 14 April 1475.
Upon request.
RARE FIRST EDITION of Sermones de tempore et de sanctis of St. Bernard of Clairvaux and other sermons attributed to him in the later Middle
Ages. "[A] noble edition and a typographical monument of the greatest value." (Bibliotheca Medii Aevi, no. 252). In addition to St. Bernard's sermons, the book includes his celebrated treatise in praise of the Knights Templar, Ad milites templi de laude novae militae.
Printed in the same beautiful gothic type which was first introduced in the colophon of Fust and Schoeffer's 1459 Durandus, and then used to print their famous 1462 Bible.
Very tall, untrimmed copy of this magnificent incunabulum in a contemporary binding. A truly superb typographical specimen from the cradle of printing.
Two section titles, colophon and Schoeffer's device printed in red. Beautifully rubricated throughout in contemporary hand, including several large initials with elaborate penwork decorations in red and blue.
This copy has two typographical corrections identical to those in the copies at the British Library, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the Pierpont Morgan Library, indicating that the corrections were made in the Schoeffer's printing house itself.
COMPLETE, including the final blank.
