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Lot n° 17

LAURENT JUSTINIEN (Saint).

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[Opera]. De institutione et regimine prælatorum. - De obedientia. - De humilitate. - Sermones de sanctis. [Brescia, Angelo Britannico, 1506]. 4 parts (out of 19) in a folio volume, stiff vellum (old binding). Superb Brescian printing in Roman type. This important edition of the works of Lorenzo Justinian (1380-1456), bishop of Castello and first patriarch of Venice, consists of nineteen treatises under separate pagination, but it is only rarely found complete. Our copy contains four of these treatises, topped by a general manuscript title. Marginal annotations in the fourth treatise. From the library of the abbot of Contagnet, canon in Viviers, with ex-libris. Missing the title of the first treatise (f. AA1), light spotting, reinforced quires at the bottom of the volume. Spine absent reinforced with black cloth (missing). ISTC ij00500100.