68 - A mock-up collection of 3 rare 16th-century texts bound together in an 8vo volume, soft full vellum, handwritten title on the spine, traces of lacing. The third text is trimmed short at the top margin.

A mock-up collection of 3 rare 16th-century texts bound together in an 8vo volume, soft full vellum, handwritten title on the spine, traces of lacing. The third text is trimmed short at the top margin. 1/ CHEYLUS (Sébastien). Disticha in singula omnium librorum sacrae scripturae (...). Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1561. 72 ff. A religious manual, presented in the form of couplets arranged in alphabetical order for each chapter of the Bible. 2/ DUGO (Johannes Philonius). De scientia bene moriendi, Liber. Also, Xenocrates, the Platonic philosopher’s treatise On the Contempt of Death, translated by the same Philonius (...). Basel, Johann Oporin, n.d. [1533]. 200 pp. One woodcut vignette in the text and a tailpiece. Collective first edition of this moral and spiritual treatise on preparation for death, “ars moriendi.” The last part contains a short treatise on hygiene and preventive medicine, recalling the precepts of the School of Salerno. 3/ DUGO (Johannes Philonius). Libri Christianarum institutionum quatuor: In which both the highest and the lowest are elegantly, learnedly, and modestly called to a way of life worthy of Christ and the Christian, and to the peace and unity of the Church. Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn, 1538. (24) ff., 149 ff. First edition. Engraved title page.