Sales catalogue 48: H. P. Kraus

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/39/2
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 48: H. P. Kraus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    22. BARTHOLOMAEUS DE CHAIMIS, O.F.M. Confessionale. Gothic type, 2 cols., 48 lines. 55 leaves (first blank missing). Leaves 2-4 remar- gined. 4to. Old vellum. Venice, Reynaldus de Novimagio, Sept. 28, 1486. $75.00 HC (Add) 2488*; Polain (B) 518; Pr 4448; BMC V 258; GW 6549; Voull (B) 3828; Census B 147. The author, Bartholomaeus de Chaimis, was a Franciscan friar who died in 1496. The book, one of his best known works, contains interesting references to contemporary life. Dicing and card-playing are mentioned as objectionable, chess not being a game of chance seems to have been permitted for clerics. Frauds practised in many trades and professions are flayed. The author speaks of lawyers and doctors, goldsmiths (mentioning alchemical gold and silver), tailors (ladies’ dresses should not be too “‘décolleté”’), winesellers should not keep disorderly houses nor allow dicing and card-playing, actors and musicians should be circumspect. 24. BELLENCINIS, BARTHOLOMAEUS DE. De caritativo subsidio et decima beneficiorum. Gothic type, 2 cols., 45 lines. 54 leaves. Sm. folio. Vellum from a XVth cent. antiphonary. Modena, Antonius Miscomini & Dominicus Richizola, May 9, 1489. $185.00 HC 2761*; Pr 7194; BMC VII 1061; GW 3805; Census B 265. A treatise on matters of canon law by Bartolomeo de Bellencinis of Modena (1428- 1478), a jurist in Rome, edited after his death by his brother Aurelio. It is a beautiful specimen of printing from a press from which only one other book is known (Statuta gabel- larum et criminalia Mutinae, Apr. 20, 1487). There are no copies in the public libraries of France and in the Staatsbibliothek of Berlin. A very fine copy with wide margins. 25. BENIVIENI, GIROLAMO. Canzoni e sonetti dell’amore e della bellezza divina, con commento. Roman type, 44 lines of commentary. 4 leaves, 150 ff. Sm. folio. XVIIIth cent. calf (rebacked). The Sunderland copy. Florence, Antonio Tubini, Lorenzo (de Alopa) Veneziano, and Andrea Ghirlandi, Sep. 8, 1500. $185.00 H 2788*; Pell 2047; BMC VI 693; GW 3850 (- var. dated Sep. 8; first var: Adi viii/ di Septembre M.CCCCC); Pr 6424; Census B 287. First edition of Benivieni’s poems with his own commentary. Girolamo Benivieni (1453- 1542) a celebrated poet of Florence, was a friend and ardent follower of Savonarola. The book, the only dated production of the press of the three associates, is very in- teresting for the history of Florence in its revolutionary period under the religious dic- tatorship of Savonarola. It contains his song: “Viva ne’ nostri cuori viva o Florentia,” which was written to be sung by the people of Florence on Palm Sunday, 1496, after the solemn procession of boys in the Piazza della Signoria, and Benivieni’s long account—the first ever written and published—of the sensational burning of the vanities in Florence, during the Carnival of 1497, at the suggestion of Savonarola, in which a great number of objects of art were destroyed. 26. PSEUDO-BERNARDUS. Speculum de honestate vitae; octo puncta mediante quibus pervenitur ad perfectionem vitae spiritualis. Gothic type, 23-24 lines. 10 leaves. Rubricated with red initials. Sm. 4to. Boards. From the libraries of L. Thompson Rowe and George Dunn of Woolley Hall. N.pl., n.d. (Basle, Martin Flach, 1472-73). $250.00 H *2900; Pell 2143; BMC III, 740; GW 4071; Vouil. (B) 417; not in Census. First edition of one of the earliest books from this press.
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