ORIGENES (ADAMANTIUS)
Que in hoc libro continentur: In Genesim homilie. Eiusdem Exodum homilie. Eiusdem ...

ORIGENES (ADAMANTIUS)
Que in hoc libro continentur: In Genesim homilie. Eiusdem Exodum homilie. Eiusdem Leviticum homilie. Eiusdem Numeros homilie … (and other texts and homilies). Venice, Bernardino de Benali, 31.III.1512. (With, of the same:) II. Super Job libri tres (and other homilies about the Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Apostles). Venice, Lazaro de Soardis, 9.V.1513. (With, of the same:) III. Explanatio in epistola(m) Pauli ad Romanos diuo Hieronymo interprete. Venice, Bernardino de Benali, 16.IX.1512.

Folio (318x213 mm), 3 works bound together in a contemporary blindstamped dark brown calf over wooden boards (worn on upper cover, with loss of calf, partially restored at the foot of spine) with metallic clasps on boards (lacking catches, upper right corner of first cover worn), marginal waterstains at bottom of first leaves but generally in clean and bright condition, with a part of it contemporarily and beautifully rubricated with large capital letters in red. Early manuscript fragments removed from pastedowns (text still visible in ‘negative’, a long thin strip still present on rear pastedown. Contemporary bookmarks on outer edge, and a contemporary manuscript note stating the provenance from the monastery of Saint Matthias in Treviri (Trier, in Germany). First work: text in gothic type on 2 columns, ff. 4 unn., CLXXXI (misnumb. CLXXXII), 1 blank. Second work: text in roman type, with many large capital letters on 5 and 7 lines, ff. 2 unn., CXLVI numb. with woodcut device printed in black at the end. Third work: text in gothic type on 2 columns, ff. LXXXVII numb. with 10 woodcut historiated initials. Hoffmann III, 181; Panzer VIII, 410ff., 603, 642 u. 604; Proctor/Isaac 12580 (only the II); STC 477 (only the II); not in Adams.