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AMBROSIUS (Saint, c.340 - 397). Hexameron. Augsburg: Johann Schüssler, c. 5 May 1472.
Chancery 2° (240 x 175mm). Collation: [1-210 310(+1) 410 58 6-710 88] (1/1r text, 8/6r colophon, 8/7 blank). 76 leaves (of 77, without final blank); quire 5 bound before quire 4. 35 lines. Type: 1:117G. Opening 6-line initial in green with red Maiblumen decoration, 2- to 5-line initials in red, a few with yellow in-fill, red capital strokes. (Faint dampstain and light spotting on front leaf.) 20th-century English brown morocco tooled in blind, rosette at centre of single-fillet lozenge, spine lettered in gilt, red edges, one pair of early endleaves. Provenance: a few ?17th-century marginal notes -- Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), Broxbourne Library (stamp, bookplate, collation note by Victor Scholderer inserted; sale Sotheby's, 14 November 1977, lot 27, £1,100, to:) -- André Himpe, (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 6).
FIRST EDITION. Ambrose's Hexameron is a commentary on the six days of creation (Genesis 1.1-26) in the form of homilies collected in six books, and one of the earliest extant works of its kind, drawing on Basil the Great's work of the same name. Saint Aldhelm in his Carmen de Virginitate describes the Hexameron as 'a lucid little work, unfolding with devout reckoning how from the first beginnings the wisdom of the supreme Father had made this present world through six periods of days, disposing the ages with an eternal command' (trans. Lapidge and Rosier 1985 pp 117-18). This work is an established source for Bede's commentaries on Genesis, Ælfric's own Hexameron, and, along with Lactantius' Carmen de ave phoenice, the 9th-century Old English poem The Phoenix. RARE ON THE MARKET: this is the only copy of this edition to appear at auction for over thirty years. H 903; GW 1603; BMC II, 329 (IB. 5630); BSB-Ink A-475; Bod-inc A-232; Goff A-555.
Chancery 2° (240 x 175mm). Collation: [1-210 310(+1) 410 58 6-710 88] (1/1r text, 8/6r colophon, 8/7 blank). 76 leaves (of 77, without final blank); quire 5 bound before quire 4. 35 lines. Type: 1:117G. Opening 6-line initial in green with red Maiblumen decoration, 2- to 5-line initials in red, a few with yellow in-fill, red capital strokes. (Faint dampstain and light spotting on front leaf.) 20th-century English brown morocco tooled in blind, rosette at centre of single-fillet lozenge, spine lettered in gilt, red edges, one pair of early endleaves. Provenance: a few ?17th-century marginal notes -- Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), Broxbourne Library (stamp, bookplate, collation note by Victor Scholderer inserted; sale Sotheby's, 14 November 1977, lot 27, £1,100, to:) -- André Himpe, (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 6).
FIRST EDITION. Ambrose's Hexameron is a commentary on the six days of creation (Genesis 1.1-26) in the form of homilies collected in six books, and one of the earliest extant works of its kind, drawing on Basil the Great's work of the same name. Saint Aldhelm in his Carmen de Virginitate describes the Hexameron as 'a lucid little work, unfolding with devout reckoning how from the first beginnings the wisdom of the supreme Father had made this present world through six periods of days, disposing the ages with an eternal command' (trans. Lapidge and Rosier 1985 pp 117-18). This work is an established source for Bede's commentaries on Genesis, Ælfric's own Hexameron, and, along with Lactantius' Carmen de ave phoenice, the 9th-century Old English poem The Phoenix. RARE ON THE MARKET: this is the only copy of this edition to appear at auction for over thirty years. H 903; GW 1603; BMC II, 329 (IB. 5630); BSB-Ink A-475; Bod-inc A-232; Goff A-555.
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