♦ Vie et saincte passion de nostre seigneur ihesucrist (La). S.l.n.d. [Lyon?, between 1480 and 1500]. 2 parts in a gothic folio volume, half tan, spine decorated, red title page, red edges (Binding circa 1860). Seemingly the only known copy of this superb incunabula edition. The volume is briefly described by Claudin, in volume IV of his Histoire de l'imprimerie en France au XVe et au XVIe siècle, pp. 386-387, the bibliographer indicating that this most precious volume was kindly communicated to him by the bookseller Édouard Rahir who had discovered it. The edition is printed in large gothic type on two columns, with 33 lines. It is divided into two parts, whose texts can also be found separately. The first part includes the Vie et saincte passion de nostre seigneur ihesucrist, in 68 leaves: it is decorated with 78 remarkable woodcuts in archaic style illustrating various episodes of the Passion and Death of Christ, which, according to Claudin, were then passed on to the Parisian workshop of Jean du Pré, who used them in turn in 1490 in his edition of Lystoire de la Passion. The second is occupied by the Destruction of Iherusalem and the Death of Pilate, in 24 leaves but with a new signature of the quires. This one opens with an untitled leaf printed on the front and the back decorated with a large and beautiful woodcut depicting the emperor Vespasian in bed and Veronica presenting him with the veil of the Holy Face. Claudin classified this edition among the anonymous workshops of Lyon, based on the large typographic characters which are the same as those used by Guillaume le Roy in his edition of the Livre des Eneydes de Virgile of 1483. The edition does not correspond to any of the editions listed by Bechtel and we have not found any matching entries in computerized catalogs of incunabula. Wet heraldic bookplate (shield charged with a rooster) bearing the motto Pugnat & vigilat, undetermined. Small wetness on the upper edge of a few leaves. An old handwritten lettering S has punctured the text on folio a2.