(1516). LA FLEUR DES COMMANDEMENS DE DIEU. - Lot 73

(1516). LA FLEUR DES COMMANDEMENS DE DIEU. Paris, Guillaume Nyverd and Hémon Le Fèvre, 1516. Small gothic folio of [20]-214 leaves, brown basane, ribbed spine (modern binding). "The first is a commentary on God's commandments, supported by numerous examples whose subject alone is indicated. Reference is made each time to the second part." Copy of God's commandments. Welter has counted 491 stories, mostly borrowed from Jean Hérolt's collections Promptuarium et Sermones, Vitae Patrum, Dialogues de Saint Grégoire and Césaire de Heisterbach". (Monfrin). Title restored and soiled, consolidated and reassembled, as are the first few leaves. The last leaf is doubled and restored with missing words. Several handwritten annotations dated 1593, including one signed R. de Ellecourt (USTC, 34077, 2 ex.).