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INCUNABLE.-BERENGARIUS DE LANDORA.

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INCUNABLE.-BERENGARIUS DE LANDORA.

Lumen animae. S.l. [Strasbourg, Printer of the Golden Legend], n.d. [on colophon]: 1482. Gothic In-4, marbled basane, speckled edges (Binding ca. 1800) GW, M16917-HC, 10333-Goff, L-396-Pellechet,
4749-Strasbourg incunabulum printed in Gothic characters on two columns, 43 lines
per page.

Attributed to Berengarius of Landora, the Lumen animae is a collection of exempla used for sermons, serving both as a catalogue for preachers and as pious reading for the literate public.

The

first known edition of this compilation dates from the mid-1470

's.

This edition, published in March 1482 by Matthias Farinator, the Austrian philosopher and theologian who died in the early 16th century, is the last incunabulum edition of this

text.

Very short copy of margins, incomplete of 2 sheets of text in the second part. Bottom corner of the first 10 sheets destroyed with loss of words. Repair to the back with two strips of fabric.