Book Description

Single Incunable folio leaf, 313 x 218mm. Folio 3, signature P. Probably from the second volume of the works of Johannes Gerson. Printed black on white paper and printed in double columns of 53 letters on the recto and verso, in Gothic Blackletter Gothic type. A clean bright and fresh example. Couple of small (worm ?] holes in the outer margin not affecting the text, otherwise a fine copy. Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363 – 1429), French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of Constance, he was born at Gerson in France. ISTC, no. ig001186000. Goff G186. Copinger 7622.
Author INCUNABLE LEAF. [ Gerson, Johannes.] [1488 ?]
Publisher [Strassburg : Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, partly with the types of Johann Prüss and Martin Flach, 1488.]

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