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[UNPUBLISHABLE].
Pope Gregory I. Saint Gregory.
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Pope Gregory I. Saint Gregory.
The Homilies / St Gregory / newly printed in Paris. [Paris, Antoine Vérard, 1501; in the colophon: Printed in Paris in the year one thousand five hundred and one for Antoine Vérard…].
Small folio, (2) leaves, CXI numbered leaves, (1) blank leaf, in columns.
19th-century havana morocco, spine with 5 raised bands edged with gilt fillets, gilt title, place and date, gilt fleurons, covers edged with a double frame of several black fillets and a gilt fillet, with 4 gilt angular fleurons, gilt fillet on the fore-edges and headbands, back covers edged with morocco leather decorated with a double gilt fillet, gilt edges, first 2 leaves carefully re-glued [F. Bedford] (slight rubbing on the caps and corners, edges of the endpapers browned, very slight foxing).
Edouard Rahir (gilt bookplate on red cloth); Grace Whitney Hoff (engraved bookplate).
USTC 26010. Renouard, ICP, I, 1501, 39. McFarlane, Vérard, no. 66.
A very rare edition.
Most certainly the first French translation of these texts by Gregory the Great.
These forty homilies on the Gospels are among the most significant works of the great Pope. The translator of this first edition remains unknown.
Printed in Gothic type in two columns of 44 lines.
The edition is illustrated with 36 woodcut plates, including a full-page plate on the reverse of the title page depicting Christ surrounded by the symbolic animals of the four Evangelists, one covering two-thirds of the first page of the text, 34 vignettes the width of a column, and the bookseller’s mark at the end of the volume.
Signatures A2, B-T 6, V4 (the last blank).
Only three copies are recorded by the USTC: one in Auch and another in Douai (the condition of which is unknown), and one at the BNF printed on vellum (Res. Vélins 305).
A superbly executed copy by the famous English bookbinder Francis Bedford (1799–1883).