RECUEIL Lot n° 31

of religious texts by Bernard de Clairvaux, Jacob de Gruytrode, Henri de Langenstein, Gérard Zerbolt de Zutphen, Hugues de Fouilloy, Hermann von dem Busche, or anonymous]. Paris, Cologne, a.o., 1492-1505. 14 works in one large volume in-8, cold-stamped tan calf on wood, large frieze of scrolls bordered by fillets in frame, flowers in corners, central rectangle decorated with large cold fleurons, different on both boards, title of the first work [meditatões bernardi] stamped at the top of the upper board, spine ribbed and decorated with cold fleurons, smooth edges with lateral tabs, ornate brass clasps (Germanic binding of the period). Exceptional collection comprising fourteen incunabula and post-incunabula editions, all of great rarity and known for the most part only in a few copies. Contents of the collection: I. BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX (Pseudo-). Meditationes s[an]cti Bernardi abbatis. Paris, Denis Roce, s.d. - 76] ff. signed. A-I8, K4. USTC, 142822 (2 copies). II. BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX. Bernardus de concorda[n]tia statuum religioso[rum] qui pro suo te[m]pore erant. [Paris], Denis Roce, s.d. [after 1500]. - 32] ff. signed. A-D8. GW, 3912; ISTC, ib00366600; Pellechet, 2161; CIH 562; IBE 920; IBP 907; Voullième, 4767; USTC, 201676 (3 ex.). III. BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX. Bernardus ad Eugenium papam. [Paris], Denis Roce, s.d. [ca. 1502]. - 60] ff. signed a-g8, h4 (h4 blank). Goff, B-372; Pellechet, 2133; IBP, 910; Proctor, 8369A; BMC, VIII, 199; GW, 3920; ISTC, ib00372000; USTC, 207087 (1 ex.). IV. BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX (Pseudo-). Divi Bernardi abbatis ad sorore[m] modus b[e]n[e] vive[n]di. Paris, Denis Roce, June 4, 1502. - 88] ff. signed a-l8. USTC, 180031 (5 copies); Moreau, I, p. 66, no. 9 (3 copies). V. GUY JOUENNAUX. Reformationis monastice vindicta seu defensio. [Paris], Denis Roce, s.d. [ca. 1501]. - [68] ff. signed. A-H8, I8 (I4 blank). IGI, 5608; Reichling, 226 and 579; CIBN, II, 138; BSB-Ink, I-696; GW, M-15906 (4 ex.); ISTC, ij00671500. VI. Alphabetu[m] divini amoris. De elevatio[n]e me[n]tis in deum. Una cum conte[m]plationibus Bernardini de Senis ordinis fratrum mino[rum]. Paris, Robert Gourmont for Denis Roce, s.d. [after 1500]. - 32] ff. signed. A-D8. A woodcut Crucifixion adorns the front of the penultimate leaf. The Alphabet of Divine Love has been variously attributed to John Gerson, Thomas a Kempis, Johann Nider or Nikolaus Kempf. It is followed in this edition by the Contemplations of Saint Bernardine of Siena (1380-1444). ISTC, ia00531500; Polain, 148; GW, 1566 (4 ex.); CRF, III, 37. VII. [JACOB DE GRUYTRODE]. Opusculum aureum anime peccatricis. [Paris], Denis Roce, s.d. - 28] ff. signed a-c8, d4. The mark of Denis Roce adorning the title is repeated on the verso of the last leaf. This fifteenth-century ascetic treatise inspired Queen Marguerite of Navarre's poem Miroir de l'âme pécheresse. It has been attributed to Jacob of Gruytrode, but also to Jacob of Jüterbogk and Denis le Chartreux. Graesse, V, 31. VIII. Fundamentu[m] eterne felicitatis. Cu[m] libro de miseria condit[i]o[n]is humane. Cologne, Retro minores, October 9, 1503. - 3] ff, LVIII pp; sign. A-B8 C4 D8 E4. Missing the second part of the edition containing the treatise De miseria conditionis humanæ by Pope Innocent III (34 ff.). VD16, F-3406. IX. HENRI DE LANGENSTEIN. Secreta Sacerdotu[m] in missa teneri debent multum utilia collecta Jacob de Jüterbogk. Questiones de celebratione missarum pro defunctis S. l. n. d. [Cologne, Retro Minores, ca. 1502]. - 24] ff. signed aa-cc8. Two full-page woodcuts: an Annunciation on the verso of the title and a Crucifixion on the verso of the last leaf. Henry of Langenstein (c. 1325-1397) is also known as Henry of Hesse the Elder. Jacob of Jüterbogk (ca. 1385-1465) was a Cistercian in Paradiz, Poland, and a Carthusian at St. Agnes near Erfurt. VD16, ZV-7703; USTC, 692829 (4 copies). X. Missale itinera[n]tium seu misse peculiares valde devoteque sequuntur. Cologne, Retro minores, 1503. - 32] ff. signed e-f4, g-h8, i-k4. Woodcut Holy Family repeated on the front and back of the last leaf; characteristic of the Retro Minores printing house, this illustration also appears in the work by Hugues de Fouilloy described below. Proctor, 10504; Weale, 465. XI. [GERARD ZERBOLT OF ZUTPHEN]. De reformatio[n]e virium anime. S. l. n. n. [Basel, Johannes Amerbach], 1492. - 60] ff. signed a-g8, h4. Curious woodcut on verso of title, depicting Adam, Eve, and the Serpent in the Garden of Eden; in naive style, the vignette is set in a border animated with peacocks and fabulous beings.This Basel incunabulum is the earliest edition cited by bibliographers of the Manual of Inner Reformation by Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen (1367-1398), one of the earliest members of the Deventer Brotherhood of the Common Life. Hain, 16291*; Goff, G-171 (10 copies); Pellechet, 5120; Polain, 1586; Proctor, 7594; BMC, III, 755; GW, 10698; Schramm, XXI, 2