ALBERTUS DE PADUA. Evangeliorum quadragesimalium opus aureum.

Octavo (155 × 100 mm.). [8], 407, [1] leaves, EEE8 blank, text in double column, Gothic type. Title page in red and black with coat of arms, several woodcut initials throughout the text, and a full-page woodcut depicting Saint Augustine at †8v. Contemporary brown morocco binding with blind decorations. Two ex-libris “Jaco Calleri Damonte - Graja (Piemont)”, “Nosce te ipsum - ex libris - Giuseppe Turrini” on the front paste-down; bibliographical and provenance annotations on the endpapers; manuscript annotation on title page. Worn binding with few small worm holes on panels and spine; small ink stains on the first five leaves and on 123v and 124r, otherwise a very good copy.

A rare first edition of sermons on the Lenten Gospels by Albert of Padua (ca. 1269 - 1323 or 1328), preacher and theologian of the order of the hermits of Saint Augustine active in Padua, Paris and Bologna. Various editions of his sermons that were printed until the end of the XVI century attest his fame as a preacher.

Bibliotheca Franciscana. Gli incunaboli e le cinquecentine dei frati minori dell'Emilia-Romagna conservate presso il Convento dell'Osservanza di Bologna, 1999; Catalogo della Biblioteca "Siciliani" di Galatina, 1979.