GERSON (Jean). Lot n° 13

Tercia pars operum. Strasbourg, Martin Flach, 11 August 1494. In-folio of [357] ff, stamped tan calf on wood, framed with straight and oblique cold fillets, compartments decorated with numerous cold fleurons, mute spine with four double nerves, metal clasps (Period binding). Third part only of this important Strasbourg edition of the theological works of John Gerson, edited by Peter Schott and Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg. The complete edition consists of three parts and a general index. A large full-page woodcut on the verso of the title depicts the author as a pilgrim, bearing a shield of arms and followed by a dog. It is quite close to the portrait of Gerson attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Precious Alsatian incunabulum entirely rubricated and decorated with large initials painted in red, full or hollow. The rubricator has left on the title a Latin inscription in red ink indicating the absence of a leaf. Indeed, the copy is incomplete of the 2 joint ff. yy1 and yy8; the last blank leaf DD8 is also missing. A well preserved copy, despite some worm holes without gravity and fine marginal wetness on a few leaves; first and last leaves rebacked with minor marginal repairs; binding much restored, spine rebacked, clasps missing, endpapers renewed. ISTC, ig00189000 - HC 7625* - Goff, G189 - Pr, 698 - BMC, I, 152 - GW 10717.