domini ac salvatoris nostri ex evangelio & approbatis ab ecclesia catholica doctoribus sedule collecta per Ludolphum de Saxonia candidissimi chartusianorum ordinis servantissimum: et accurate per Jodocum badium ascensium annotata: atque alphabetico indicio ac vita sancte Anne: atque laudibus divi Joachim aucta : diligenterque rursus Lugdunum impressa 1510. Claude Davost (para) Stephanus Gueynard (Etienne Gueynard, dit Pinet)

In fólio de 25x18 cm. Com 428 fólios sem numeração.

Encadernação da época em pergaminho flexível com o título caligráfico na lombada.

Bela impressão pós incunabular em caracteres góticos, frontispício gravado com cenas bíblicas, o titulo a duas cores. Texto impresso a duas colunas com belas capitulares. Ilustrado com uma gravura xilográfica inicio do texto representado o presépio. Importante obra sobre a vida de Cristo, comentário devocional aos evangelhos com citações da literatura patrística e medieval. Principal texto do autor, monge cartuxo natural de Estrasburgo (1295-1378), impresso pela primeira vez em 1474, na cidade natal do autor. Esta foi a primeira obra ilustrada impressa em Portugal (1495) e a terceira impressa em língua portuguesa, tendo considerada a primeira até cerca de 1965.

 Binding: in a contemporary flexible vellum with calligraphic title on the spine. Calf ties remains. Very fine post incunabular print in Gothic characters, frontispiece engraved with biblical scenes, and title page printed in two colors. Text printed in two columns with beautiful capital letters containing biblical scenes. Title page with an engraved woodcuts (beginning of the text) representing the Nativity.

Very important devotional book - devotional commentary to the Gospels with citations from literature patristic and medieval - printed in Lyon in 1510 from the Carthusian monastery Marienburg, near Duelmen, for Stephanus Gueynard (Etienne Gueynard, dit Pinet), 29 July 1510. (Main text of the author, a native of Strasbourg Carthusian monk (1295-1378), first printed in 1474, in the hometown of the author).

In 4to. Title (printed in red and black) beginning with a woodcut initial (V), underneath a woodcut of 122x 124mm. with Maria and the infant Christ sitting on a pillow and holding a large cross at the right probably the publisher is praying framed by woodcut borders of portraits of saints at the left, of five angels and saints, below and six separate woodcuts of ca. 32x20mm of angels and saints at the right together in a second border of floral and decorative woodblocks. An interesting and beautiful woodcut of the birth of Christ in a fantasized architectural setting (98x75mm), flanked by three woodcuts of angels and saints (ca.32x20mm) at either side, in a border of floral woodcut blocks at the beginning of the text. Headline and beginning of the text printed in red. Many small woodcuts (ca.32x20mm) with biblical scenes and saints at the beginning of each chapter (some are bigger) and many woodcut initials.

The artist who made these cuts is the famous Lyonese woodcutter G. Leroy II (Baudrier, IX, p. 172). The book is rubricated throughout. (12), (416) leaves. Very rare lavishly illustrated re-edition of the Lyonese edition printed by Etienne Gueynard and Martin Bouillon in 1507. This time the book was printed, as stated in the colophon on f. 2E7v by Claude Davost for Gueynard. The edition is sometimes dated '1514' in the bibliographies as the date in the colophon reads: 'M. quingentesimodecimo: quarto Kal. Aug.' Etienne Gueynard (1460-1525) was active as a printer in Lyon from 1485 onwards. This famous devotional work mostly referred to as the Vita Christi, is the main work of the Carthusian monk Ludolphus de Saxonia (ca.1295-Stassburg 1378). In fact it is a commentary on the four Gospels interspersed with citations from patristic and medieval literature. The result is a continuing story of the life of Jesus that has been very influential for, among others, Ignatius of Loyola (see: H. Böhmer, Loyola und die deutsche Mystik (1921)). The editio princeps of the Vita was published in Strassbourg in 1474, with another edition in the same year in Schletstadt. The standard modern edition is by L.M. Rigollot (1878). On the verso of the title page is the dedicatory letter of Josse Badius Ascensius to Petrus Rostanus, dated 27.11.1507 (the date of the first Gueynard edition), followed by a poem 'ad studiosos lectores'. The 'Tabula' is on the next 11 leaves. The 'Prologus'of Ludolphus' Vita Christi is on f. 1-4r the first part on f. 4r-217r and the second part on f. 217r-412r.f. 412v-413v: Petrus Dorlandus, Vita gloriosissime matris Anne.f. 414r : Jodocus Bessellius, Rosarium de Sancta Anna.f. 414v-415r: Laudes et hymni (a.o. a hymn by Jacobus Keimolanus). f. 415r-v: Guillermus Bibaucius, Octo epigrammata. f. 415v: two poems by Robertus Baguinus the colophon and a 'Tetrasticon' to the reader by Josse Badius Ascensius.f. 416r: the often lacking 'Registrum' (list of the quires verso: blank).

Very good copy of this important devotional work complete with the last leaf containing the list of quires ('Registrum')

BM STC French, p. 292 Graesse IV, 291 Baudrier, XI, p. 172 and 223-4 BSB, 24, p.230 (this ed.?) Renouard, Josse Badius Asc., III, p.33-4 I. Schunke, Die Schwenke Sammlung, II, p.276 M.I. Bodenstedt, The Vita Christi of Ludolphus the Carthusian (1944) not in the BN, Paris. [This file was extracted mostly from Antiquariatt FORUM / Esta ficha foi extraída em grande parte de Antiquariatt FORUM].