£320
DIONYSIUS THE CARTHUSIAN. Opus Commentariorum in Psalmos Omnes Davidicos. Eng. title vignette, wood eng. illus. to reverse of title (representing Dionysius at the feet of the Virgin with Child) & eng. opening capital. 790pp (conforms to Adams D562), text in double column. Large engraved rebus bookplate of Monasterii Murensis (Benedictine Abbey at Muri in Switzerland). Old stamp & erased inscription to title (the latter showing through). Folio. Early embossed vellum covered brds. with clasps, top brd. detached but present. Cologne, Heirs of Ioannis Quentelii & Geruinum Calenium, 1558 (Calend Septembribus). To the front free endpaper is a rubricated manuscript scribal verse of 7 lines, commencing "Virginitas flos et Virginis aurea dos". Below the engraved bookplate is a manuscript gift inscription to "Johannes Mason Neale", Anglican Priest & Scholar & writer of hymns including "Good King Wenceslas".
Staining and cracking to velum cover with signs of worm across cover. Front board seperated from spine. Annotations in Latin to end paper and fifth page. Title page yellowed with library stamp to top-left corner. Pages yellowed through-out and wormholes present (although mostly de-fined to margins)
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