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Lot 276
Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,000 -
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$756
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Lot Description
SENECA (Pseudo; attributed to Martinus DUMIENSIS, Archbishop of Braga). De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus, sive De formula honestae vitae. [Speyer : Conrad Hist, about 1500].
4to (208 x 142 mm). Collation: A-B⁶ C⁴. 14 leaves (of 16, lacking a3 and a4 text leaves), 37 lines. Gothic type. Later boards reusing 15th-century manuscript leaf on vellum (darkened and soiled, covers bowed). Provenance: a few early marginal annotations.
The De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus was one of the most popular schoolbooks of the Middle Ages, printed at least twenty-six times before 1500 and quite as often in the early 16th century.
Goff S423; H 14621*; BMC II 509; BSB-Ink M-218; GW M41535; ISTC is00423000.