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1528 · DBGC6VTDMSGH — Colophon: Venice 1528. Petrus Liechtenstein With title-page printed in red and black with a large woodcut containing the coats of arms of the Emperor Charles V Charles I of Spain and two bishops the author and perhaps a relative leaf 2 with a woodcut of the author writing at his desk with his arms and a woodcut initial with the other bishop's arms inside the letter the arms in the initial and some lines of text printed in red. Printed in two columns. 249 1 blank; 1 120 ll. Splendid humanist medallion binding made in Krakow by Stanislaus called the "Master of the Medallion" containing two early Venetian editions of biblical commentaries on Leviticus and Deuteronomy by the Spanish theologian Alfonso Tostatus 1400-1455 part of his collected works Opera omnia.Stanislaus made this binding for the humanist and theologian Joannes de Lwow 1482-1535 professor of theology at the University of Krakow. His owner's inscription "Joannis de Leopoli" is written above the woodcut on the title-page of the first work. Lwow once part of Poland is now Lviv Lemberg in Ukraine. The binding is similar to those described in the section on Stanslaus in Poolse boekbindkunst 1400-1800 see references and is clearly a companion to that catalogue's no. 71. The binding with hinges and head and foot of the spine restored; some scratches and chafing; much of the gilding gone; ad 1: ll. 1-123 with a wormhole in the blank space between the columns slightly affecting the woodcut on the title-page; overall some marginal soiling. Two Venetian biblical commentaries in a splendid contemporary Krakow medallion binding.l For the binding: Poolse boekbindkunst 1400-1800 uit de Jagiellonski Bibliotheek Krakow nos. 67-71. ABE CAT Bibles Sermons & Psalmbooks unknown