Lot 638

G. Pépin, Conciones ad sacros evangeliorum. Cologne 1610.

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€ 200
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€ 140
Lot: 638
Category: History, cultural history and miscellaneous
Artist: Guillaume Pépin
Pépin, Guillaume: Conciones ad sacros evangeliorum sensus explicandos. Pars quadragesimalis. Cologne: J. Gymnich 1610. 20 x 15,5 cm. With a woodcut title vignette. 8 leaves, 508 pages. Blind-stamped pigskin on 4 bands with a handwritten label on the spine.

(Worn, battered, stained and worm-eaten; fastening straps missing. Front endpaper bears a library label from the library of the Capuchin monastery in Eichstätt. Endpapers show signs of worm damage. Title page has handwritten ownership marks and notes, a small tear at the bottom edge and a stained spine. Lower spine shows water stains. Tanned and with some age-related staining in places. Rear flyleaf is stamped.)

VD17 12:205992F. - A rare Cologne edition of the comprehensive commentary on the Gospels for Lent by the Dominican theologian Guillaume Pépin (c. 1465–1533).