Auction 11 - I / BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS

thu 15 NOVEMBER -  fri 16 NOVEMBER 2012
Lot 2

Leggere la Bibbia nel Trecento

Marchesinus Johannes

Incunabolo, Religione, Bibbia, Collezionismo e Bibiografia, Religione

Mammotrectus super Bibliam.

(Al colophon:) Actum hoc opus Venetiis anno domini 1479... per inclytum virum Nicolaum Jenson Gallicum.

4to (mm 215x145). Leaves [260, with the first blank leaf present]. Signatures A10, B-C8, a-y8, 1-68, 710. Errors in the prints of Jenson, f1v and f2r in white, and f7v and f8r in white. Several notes. Good conservation and heavy paper. Modern full brown Morocco binding with blind-tooled decoration, signed Brugalla 1950.



Bellissima edizione di questo commento filologico alla Bibbia, la cui prima edizione apparve a Magonza: 1470. Questa interpretazione ebbe tutto il disprezzo di Lutero: «è merda per il monaco e fango dal diavolo». Pure Erasmo da Rotterdam ebbe tempo per giudicare questo testo in una riflessione inviata a Dorp: «There are some individuals amongst them, as is well known, who start off with such wretched ability and judgement that they're unsuited for any form of study, and least of all theology. Then when they've learned up a few rules of grammar from Alexander of Villedieu and dabbled in some sort of sophistic nonsense, they go on to memorize without understanding them ten propositions of Aristotle and the same number of topics from Scotus and Ockham. Anything else they hope to get out of the Catholicon, the Memmetrectus [sic], and other dictionaries of the same sort which will serve them as a Horn of Plenty». Hain-Copinger, 10559; Goff, M-239; BMC V, 180; IGI, 6147; CIBN, M-124. IBE, 3810.

Base price
EUR 4.800,00
sold : Registration