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A mock-up collection of three rare 16th-century texts bound …
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68
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A mock-up collection of three rare 16th-century texts bound …
See original version (French)
Estimate €120 - €180
Voluntary lot
Description
A mock-up collection of three rare 16th-century texts bound together in an 8vo volume, in soft full vellum, with a handwritten title on the spine and traces of lacing. The third text is trimmed short at the top margin.
1/ CHEYLUS (Sébastien). Disticha in singula omnium librorum sacrae scripturae (...). Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1561. 72 ff.
A religious handbook, presented in the form of couplets arranged in alphabetical order for each chapter of the Bible.
2/ DUGO (Johannes Philonius). De scientia bene moriendi, Liber. Also, Xenocrates, the Platonic philosopher’s treatise On the Contempt of Death, translated by the same Philonius (...). Basel, Johann Oporin, undated [1533]. 200 pp.
One woodcut vignette in the text and a colophon. First collective edition of this moral and spiritual treatise on preparation for death, the ‘ars moriendi’. The final section contains a short treatise on hygiene and preventive medicine, recalling the precepts of the School of Salerno.
3/ DUGO (Johannes Philonius). Libri Christianarum institutionum quatuor: In which both the highest and the lowest are elegantly, learnedly and modestly exhorted to a way of life worthy of Christ and the Christian, and to the peace and unity of the Church. Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn, 1538. (24) ff., 149 ff.
First edition. Engraved title page.
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About the sale
Antique and modern books: catalogued sale
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Auction time
11/14/2026 at 10:30 AM
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