Incunabulum De consideratione. Add: Sermo de cute, carne et ossibus animae Reform of the Papacy

Published by Levet, 1499

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De consideratione. Add: Sermo de cute, carne et ossibus animae [Paris : Pierre Levet, between 1494 and 1499]. Dated between 1494 and 1499 by Hillard, about 1495-96 by Goff. 56 leaves. Small 8vo. Red morocco binding. ISTC lists 9 copies (two imperfect), one in Allgau. ISTC ib00369000. Exceedingly rare, 7 copies complete worldwide. Red morocco binding (140 x 100 mm). A crisp copy with pretty pen work initials Bernard of Clairvaux’s aim is the reform of the papacy. Writing between 1148-53, Bernard is considered with the fate of pope Eugenius’s reign. “I look,” he says to the new pope, “at the height and I fear a fall, I see the mouth of the abyss that lies beneath you.” The papacy is filled with temptation: and although you have obtained a higher place, it is not a safer pace. The successor of the Apostles should not occupy himself in judging worldly affairs and disputes between the powerful he says. By contrast, it is your task is to defend the oppressed and the poor: “We cannot abandon the downtrodden; we cannot refuse judgment to those who suffer injustice”.…

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Title
Incunabulum De consideratione. Add: Sermo de cute, carne et ossibus animae Reform of the Papacy
Author
BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS
Publisher
Levet
Publication year
1499
Condition
As New
Binding
Hardcover

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