BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX (1090-1153) - photo 1
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BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX (1090-1153)

Lot 4
19.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1505116
Lot 4 | BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX (1090-1153)
Estimate value
€ 3 000 – 4 000
BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX (1090-1153)
Epistolae. [Strasbourg : Heinrich Eggestein, circa 1472-1474]

Exemplaire avec premier feuillet enluminé de cette édition incunable de textes de Bernard de Clairvaux.
L'ouvrage faisait autrefois partie de la bibliothèque de l'abbaye de Baumburg, en Bavière, fondée au début du XIIe siècle et sécularisée en 1803. Il rejoint ensuite les rayonnages de la collection de Fernand Heitz, qui le fait probablement re-relier.
Les Penn Libraries de l'université de Pennsylvanie conservent en effet un autre ouvrage provenant de la bibliothèque de Fernand Heitz, revêtu d'une reliure similaire, avec réemploi de feuillets de la Chronique de Nuremberg (cote C5 B3866 515t).
ISTC ib00383000 ; MC I 71; BSB-Ink B-310; GW 3923;Goff B383.

In-folio (392 x 276 mm). 89 feuillets (manque le dernier blanc, les feuillets 20 et 22 ainsi que 29 et 30 ont été intervertis par le relieur). Exemplaire rubriqué, feuillet a1 orné de deux lettrines enluminées. Galeries de vers, principalement marginales, en début et fin de volume. Des signatures manuscrites anciennes à l'encre rouge sont visibles dans le coin inférieur droit de plusieurs feuillets, il s'agit vraisemblablement de signatures des cahiers. Reliure moderne : bradel de vélin, plats ornés de feuillets de réemploi provenant du Liber Chronicarum Seu Chronicon Nurembergensis d'Hartmann Schedel.
Provenance : en marge supérieure de la première page, ex-libris manuscrit du XVIIe siècle : "Monastery Baumburg" : abbaye de Baumburg, en Bavière -- Fernand Heitz (1891-1963 (?); ex-libris).

Incunable edition of several works of Bernard of Clairvaux, with the first leaf illuminated. The copy is in modern binding, without the final blank leaf, probably discarded by the binder.
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Books, Books and manuscripts
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