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Lot n° 47

HAYMON D'AUXERRE.

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Haymonis episcopi Halberstaten, Commentariorum in Apocalypsim beati Johan. Libri VII. Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1540. 8 pages, fawn calf, double framed with three cold fillets, small gilt fleuron at the corners, gilt fleuron in the centre, spine decorated (Parisian binding of the time). Rare Parisian edition of these commentaries on the Apocalypse of St. John by Haymon d'Auxerre, a Benedictine monk of the Carolingian period, founder of the School of Auxerre and prolific commentator on the Bible. Old handwritten bookplates on the title. Lining renewed, small lacks at the top cap. Rubbing to the binding which is restored at two corners and at the bottom of the spine.