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LOT 41:

1574 BIBLE OF THE POOR NICOLAS DE HANAPPES ANTIQUE VIRTUTUM VITIORUM QUE EXEMPLA

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1574 BIBLE OF THE POOR NICOLAS DE HANAPPES ANTIQUE VIRTUTUM VITIORUM QUE EXEMPLA

Nicolas de Hanapes

Virtutum vitiorum que exempla : ex vtriusque Legis promptuario decerpta...

Lugduni : Apud Gulielmum Rouillium, 1574.

560 pp ( complete)

Size 3 by 4 3/4" (11.5 x 7.5 cm)

Rare.

Lovely little edition of Liber de exemplis sacre scripturae

by Nicolas de Hanapes, here under the title of Virtutum vitioru´mque exempla... also known as the “Bible of the Poor” (“Biblia Pauperum”), printed in Lyon in 1574 by Guillaume RouillE, with a mark on the title and woodcut typographic ornaments.

Leather bound, spine with 4 raised bands adorned with a label and a richly decorated in gilt.

Nicolas de Hanappes , born around 1225 in Hannappes , in the Ardennes (France), and died at sea, off Saint-Jean-d'Acre , on May 18, 1291 , was a Dominican priest , and French prelate.

Last Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (with residence in Acre ) he is also a recognized spiritual author.

His main work Liber de exemplis sacre scripturae, composed between 1260 and 1278, is a great success.

The work presents thousands of examples taken exclusively from the Bible which allow preachers to illustrate their teaching on virtues and vices, and to help the faithful to behave Christianly in public and private life, including moment of death.

It was first printed in Venice in 1477 and attributed to Saint Bonaventure .

It is frequently reissued under various titles.

Thus: Summa virtutum et viciorum (Cologne 1544, and Paris 1548),

Virtutum vitiorumque exempla ex universo divinae scripture promptuario desumta ,

Flores biblici , Exempla biblica (Augsburg, 1726),

or simply as 'Bible of the poor' ( Biblia pauperum ) , probably because these stories were easily understood, and because the editors had arranged them in alphabetical order .

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