PAULUS DIACONUS HOMILIARIUS, Speyer 1482.

INCUNABULA. PAULUS DIACONUS (EDITOR). Incipit prologus Karoli magni in omeliariu[m] per totum annu(m)... (fol. a1 verso), Opus preclarum omnium omeliaru[m] et postillaru[m]venerabiliu[m] ac egregioru[m]doctor[um] gregorij. augustini. hieronimi. ambrosij. bede. herici. leonis. maximi. ioha[n]nis ep[iscop]i. atq[ue]origenis integraliter sup[er] eua[n]gelia d[omi]nicalia … (fol. a2 recto). Speyer, Peter Drach, 1482.

Folio (about 288x205 mm, binding 310x220 mm.). 391 ll. (of 396, missing f5, (et)2-3, N3 and last blank CC6, signed a-z8, (et)8 , A-Z8, AA8⁸, BB-CC6), gothic letter, double columns, 48 lines, printer's device of two shields at end, capital letters supplied in red.
Contemporary partly mended brown blindtooled leather, corner and middle of boards with brass fittings, clasps missing, lacks last endpaper. Some minor worming in the beginning and at end,leaves signed (et)4-6 with mended tears, last leaf laid down, last but one leaf mended in the margins, Partly dampstained, first 34 and last 38 harder, otherwise some spotting, foxing and staining. Some contemporary marginal annotations and underlinings, Old annotations on inside of upper board.

Hain 8790*; GW-12928
A collection of homilies of Gregorius, Augustinus, Hieronymus and others, collected by Paulus at suggestion of Charlemagne; authorship also ascribed to Alcuin. The role of Paulus is mentioned in Charlemagne's preface.

Provenance: Sven Borgström was born in Malmö in 1927 and worked as a chemist in Stockholm, Malmö and Lund. His fine library which was built up over many years, consists mainly of older books dated from the 15th century to the late 18th century. His book-collecting began, as it perhaps should, with an incunabula. Borgström's interests included printers, book bindings, book illustrations, and he was interested in history, travel and maps. As a result of previous coin collecting, the subject of numismatics was also of interest in his library. Sven Borgström died 95 years old.

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