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De contemptu mundi
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- Description
- Work incorrectly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. Printer's name from device on title page. Place of imprint and estimated date from ISTC. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.3 x 13.9 cm. Text in one column. Woodcut initials. Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁶.
- Date
- [after 1500?]
- Call number
- 84816
- Provenance
- Several contemporary signatures and pen trials on title page and final page. Contemporary ms. annotations on title page verso and in margins on page [3]. Occasional marginal ms. annotations, pen trials, manicules and sketches. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Charles Thomas-Stanford.
- Dimensions
- 22 cm (4vo)
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