HUGUES DE SAINT-CHER.

[Speculum ecclesie una cum speculo sacerdotum]. S.l.n.d. [Lyon, printer of the Casus longi of Guido de Cumis, ca. 1487]. In-4 of [14] ff. (of 16), brown chagrin (modern binding). Extremely rare incunabulum from Lyon. The Gesamtkatalog lists only three copies of this edition, preserved in Bordeaux, Manchester and the British Library. The printing, in gothic script, is attributed to the typographer of the Casus longi super institutis by Guido de Cumis (Lyon, ca. 1490). Cardinal Hugues de Saint-Cher (†1263) was a Dominican theologian of primary importance, especially in the field of biblical studies, since he was the originator of the first verbal concordance of the Bible, of the corpus of the postilles and of the correctorium known as Hugues de Saint-Cher. The Speculum ecclesiæ, or Tractatus super missam, describes the meaning of each of the parts of the mass; it is followed by a pamphlet on the priesthood, entitled Speculum sacerdotum. Some old marginal annotations. Copy incomplete of the title leaf (a1) and the last blank leaf (b8). Marginal foxing, ff. a8 and b1 raised, break in margin of f. a3. ISTC ih00521400 - GW 13603 - Pell 6150 - BMC, VIII, 340.