1485. Incunabula. Three titles bound as one; Summary Of Theological Truth, Manual of The Curate, Manuscript of Virgin Mary. Latin Language.

1) MANIPULUS CURATOREM (A team of curators, or Manual of the Curate) - and- 2) COMPENDIUM THEOLOGICAE VERITATIS (Summary of Theological Truth) -and- 3) 15th century manuscript on Virgin Mary. 3 books in one. Incunabula.

Authors: Guido de Monte Rochen, Albertus Magnus, Anon.

8vo.(5.5" x 7.875".) 1485. Various. Venice: Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis or Gabriel de Grassis. Full brown speckled calf. Spine with four raised bands, gilt author/title on fancy gilt framed light brown leather to second compartment, large floral gilt flower devices to all other compartments. Head and foot of spine chipped with small loss. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed. Front pastedown torn, lacking bottom fifth with armorial bookplate. Ephemera laid in. Some pages with small closed tears to their edges. One leaf with bottom half torn off (see pic). 1) 8vo. a-k8, l4 (or, 84 leaves); includes front and rear blanks; leaf c3 with large chip (with loss, about 1/4 of page.) An early printing of this late medieval manual on pastoral care. Little is known about the author, though the work was printed in several incunable editions (the first in 1473.) ISTC ig00596000; Goff G-596. A very popular book in its day, sales were three times those of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica. It became obsolete only when the Council of Trent created the Roman Catechism in 1566. 2) 8vo. a-l8, m10; 96 leaves (of 98, lacking m1 and m10, the latter being the final leaf with printer's device), blank a1 present. A rather scarce edition of this work by this 13th century German Dominican friar, philosopher, and scientist. ISTC ia00238000; Goff A238; GW 606. Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great; c 1200 - 1280) was one of the most universal thinkers to appear during the Middle Ages. He wrote on botany, astronomy, chemistry, physics, biology, and geography, and made original contributions to logic, psychology, metaphysics, meteorology, mineralogy and zoology 3) Bound at end is an attractive 15th century manuscript on the Virgin Mary, [8] pages.

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