(Pseudo-)Bonaventura. Sermones mediocres de tempore.... Lot 306

(Pseudo-)Bonaventura. Sermones mediocres de tempore. (On the last leaf:) Strasbourg, [printer of 1483 Jordanus von Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 12. III.1496. 8°. Gothic type, 34 lines and header; printed in two columns. 8 unnum. (the last white), 178 roman foliated leaves, 1 white leaf (quire count: [8], a-c8, d4, e-f8, g4, h-i8, k4, l-m8, n4, o-p8, q4, r-s8, t4, v-x8, y4, z8, A-B8, C1-7, without the last white leaf). Dated cardboard cover (cover cover detached). ISTC No. ib00942000 GKW 4801. BMC I, 145 (IA.2069). Goff B-942, a very rare edition in the trade, printed on very strong paper, without rubrication and painted initials. Georg Husner edited an edition of Bonaventura's "Opuscula" in the same year. The Franciscan Giovanni di Fidenza (1221-1274), who called himself Bonaventura, is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of scholasticism. However, this collection of sermons, which is arranged according to the church year, is not considered to have been written by him. Very numerous marginalia by one hand in brown ink. Various ownership inscriptions from the 16th-19th century on the inside cover and the first leaf. Small worm mark in the fold of the 17 leaves. Dampstaining throughout the volume, both in the margins and in the fold.