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Lot 27

LEONARDUS DE UTINO
Sermones aurei de sanctis, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 22 January 1478

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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LEONARDUS DE UTINO

Sermones aurei de sanctis, 211 leaves (of 212, without final blank), 50 lines and headline, double column, gothic letter, f. 1 with a circular illuminated miniature of the Good Shepherd in gold and colours within a border of intertwining leafy tendrils inlaid in the guide space for the opening initial, partial illuminated page border incorporating 2 putti supporting a coat-of-arms inlaid in the same leaf (missing text on verso supplied in manuscript), 4-line initials and rubrications in red, 4 leaves misbound (ff. 59, 66, 181 and 186 placed after 78, 80, 185 and 180 respectively, 3 leaves other misnumbered), repair to verso of f. 2 and blank corner of f. 15, eighteenth century mottled velum gilt, gilt panelled spine (torn at head), [ISTC il00159000; BMC II 415; Goff L-159; HC 16134*], folio (412 x 280mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 22 January 1478

Footnotes

KOBERGER'S FINE PRINTING OF LEONARDO DE UTINO'S 'SERMONS': a large copy with wide-margins, embellished with a curious miniature. "The illumination inlaid in folio 1 is of a most unusual type. It appears to be Italian work of the fifteenth century, perhaps from a MS. of Vergil, and imitating an early model" (catalogue entry on front paste-down).

Provenance
Benedictine monastery of St. Leodegar in Lucerne (the city deriving its name from the form 'Luciaria'), ownership inscription at head of f. 2; Sotheby's, 1919, sold for £19 to Sanderson.

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