FINE BOOKS, PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS.

1

Incunabulum. LEONARDUS DE UTINO. Sermones quadragesimales de legibus.

EUR 6.000,00
Base d'asta
EUR 8.000,00 / 9.000,00
Stima
Fai un'offerta
Richiedi informazioni
Scheda di offerta
Condizioni di vendita

Descrizione

Incunabulum. LEONARDUS DE UTINO. Sermones quadragesimales de legibus.
 
LEONARDUS DE UTINO [MATTEI, Leonardo]. Sermones quadragesimales de legibus. 
(Köln, Konrad Winters von Homborch, non dopo il 1475)

Folio grande. 395x295 mm. Legatura in pelle bruna, titolo in rosso su Tassello applicato al piatto anteriore, rinnovata nel XX secolo. Entro custodia rigida con dorso in marocchino. Carte 311 non numerate. Senza la carta finale bianca. Testo su 2 colonne di 60 righe. Carattere gotico. 
Rubricato in rosso, prima Iniziale di sei righe in rosso con riempimento a penna e estensioni in marrone; numerose Iniziali da due a cinque righe in rosso, sottolineature del testo in rosso. Ex libris in marocchino di Estelle Doheny nel contropiatto anteriore; iscrizione di proprietà manoscritta a inchiostro nella prima pagina di testo, del Collegio dei Gesuiti di Lovanio con data ‘1643’. Piccolo strappetto riparato al margine inferiore di una carta e piccolo restauro all’ultima carta. Bell’esemplare marginoso magnificamente rubricato, stampato su carta forte.

Rarissimo incunabolo, il primo libro stampato a Colonia da Winters. Importante fonte per le leggi e gli statuti antichi delle città. Visnjevac: “The participation of popular preachers in the creation and enactment of statutes in Italian towns of the Late Middle Ages is a phenomenon which has received significant scholarly attention. Less well known is the influence of laws and law-making on the preachers’ composition of their own sermons. … Leonardo explored numerous subjects within the framework of eight forms of law, from natural and divine, to ecclesiastical and secular. But in addition to shaping the structure of these sermons, laws also formed the main content, with frequent references to canon and Roman law. … Leonardo expounded upon the obligations of those responsible for laws as well as those subject to them, and elaborated on the law’s stance on forty issues (mirroring the forty fasting days of Lent). … By linking his advice and examples with laws, Leonardo imbued the sermons with authoritative voice and simultaneously grounded them in a practical, if basic, legal education for his audience – whether ruler, lawmaker, or common man.”
Leonardus de Utino, i.e. Leonardo Mattei da Udine, fu un seguace di Tommaso d'Aquino. Divenne professore di teologia e rettore della scuola domenicana a Bologna nel 1428, e un predicatore molto acclamato che tenne discorsi dal pulpito a Venezia, Milano e Roma; fu in seguito priore del convento di San Domenico a Bologna e provinciale di tutta la Lombardia.
I Sermones sono considerati anteriori al più antico libro datato di Winters. La prima opera datata di Winters in BMC fu stampata in 1476, ma sappiamo da una nota del rubricatore datata 1475 nella copia di Monaco che la presente opera la precede. Sebbene si sappia poco di Winters, Pollard ci dice che stampò circa 60 opere tra il 1475 e il 1482.
H *16116; BSB-Ink L-121; CIBN L-136; Bod-inc L-074; Goff L-144¸ Poulain 2474. No in BMC.
Cfr. Stefan Visnjevac, Law as the Sermon: The «Sermones quadragesimales de legibus» of Leonardo Mattei da Udine (c. 1399-1469), in: Verbum e ius Predicazione e sistemi giuridici nell’Occidente medievale … a cura di Laura Gaffuri e Rosa Maria Parrinello, Firenze University Press 2018, p. 213-227; Luciano Cinelli, DBI, Vol. 72.

Condition Report

LEONARDUS DE UTINO [MATTEI, Leonardo]. Sermones quadragesimales de legibus. 
(Köln, Konrad Winters von Homborch, non dopo il 1475)

Large Folio. 395x295 mm. Brown leather binding, red title under horn in a brass frame applied on the front cover; binding renowed in the 20th century. Housed in 20th century clamshell stiff box with Morocco spine. Unnumbered 311 leaves. Without the final blank leaf. Text on two columns of 60 lines. Gothic type. Rubricated book, first Initial of six lines in red with pen filling and extensions in brown; numerous Initials of two to five lines in red, red underlining on text. Morocco Ex-Libris by Estelle Doheny pasted on the insidecover; handwritten ink ownership note on the first page of text from the Jesuit College of Leuven with the date “1643”. Very little tear on the lower margin of a leaf and little restoration on last leaf. Nice specimen with wide margins printed on thick paper and with wonderful rubrics. 

Very rare incunabulum, the first book printed in Cologne by Winters. Important source for ancient city laws and statutes.
Visnjevac: “The participation of popular preachers in the creation and enactment of statutes in Italian towns of the Late Middle Ages is a phenomenon which has received significant scholarly attention. Less well known is the influence of laws and law-making on the preachers’ composition of their own sermons. … Leonardo explored numerous subjects within the framework of eight forms of law, from natural and divine, to ecclesiastical and secular. But in addition to shaping the structure of these sermons, laws also formed the main content, with frequent references to canon and Roman law. … Leonardo expounded upon the obligations of those responsible for laws as well as those subject to them, and elaborated on the law’s stance on forty issues (mirroring the forty fasting days of Lent). … By linking his advice and examples with laws, Leonardo imbued the sermons with authoritative voice and simultaneously grounded them in a practical, if basic, legal education for his audience – whether ruler, lawmaker, or common man.”
Leonardus de Utino, i.e. Leonardo Mattei from Udine, was a follower of Thomas Aquinas. He became professor of theology and rector of the Dominican school in Bologna in 1428, and a highly acclaimed preacher who gave speeches from the pulpit in Venice, Milan and Rome; he was later prior of the convent of San Domenico in Bologna and provincial of all of Lombardy.
The Sermones are considered to predate Winters' earliest dated book. Winters' first dated work in BMC was printed in 1476, but we know from a rubricator's note dated 1475 in the Munich copy that the present work predates it. Although little is known about Winters, Pollard tells us that he printed about 60 works between 1475 and 1482.
H *16116; BSB-Ink L-121; CIBN L-136; Bod-inc L-074; Goff L-144¸ Poulain 2474. No in BMC.
Cfr. Stefan Visnjevac, Law as the Sermon: The «Sermones quadragesimales de legibus» of Leonardo Mattei da Udine (c. 1399-1469), in: Verbum e ius Predicazione e sistemi giuridici nell’Occidente medievale … a cura di Laura Gaffuri e Rosa Maria Parrinello, Firenze University Press 2018, p. 213-227; Luciano Cinelli, DBI, Vol. 72.

Bibliografia

H *16116; BSB-Ink L-121; CIBN L-136; Bod-inc L-074; Goff L-144¸ Poulain 2474. No in BMC.
Cfr. Stefan Visnjevac, Law as the Sermon: The «Sermones quadragesimales de legibus» of Leonardo Mattei da Udine (c. 1399-1469), in: Verbum e ius Predicazione e sistemi giuridici nell’Occidente medievale … a cura di Laura Gaffuri e Rosa Maria Parrinello, Firenze University Press 2018, p. 213-227; Luciano Cinelli, DBI, Vol. 72.

mer 2 Luglio 2025
Orari Asta
Via dei Soncin 28, 35122 Padova Italia
ESIBIZIONE: 28-30 Giugno 2025 solo su appuntamento.