Hereditas Antikvárium

17. árverés – Miscellanea ex libris Borda Lajos

Hagenau, 1499. július 14. Henricus Gran, impensis Joha(n)nis Ryman. (748)p. Rubricated copy with red initials.
Second edition. First published two years earlier in the same place. Osvát Laskai, a Franciscan monk, became the head of the Hungarian province in 1497. In this capacity, he came into contact with Johann Rynmann of Hagenau, the first publisher in the modern sense of the word in Germany. With one exception, all of his works were published by him. It is very likely that Laskai also drew the publisher's attention to the works of his master, Pelbárt of Temesvár. Thanks to Rynmann, both of them became the most widely published Hungarian authors abroad for a long time. Although Laskai was a more interesting and original writer than Pelbárt, he did not become as popular. While Pelbárt's works were used mainly by simple priests and monks, Osvát's writings were aimed at readers with a more theological education. As Pelbárt's disciple and the finisher of his "Rosarium," his persona has been confused with that of his fellow monk in the literature for centuries. The collection of sermons entitled "Biga salutis" (The Chariot of Salvation) is divided into three parts according to the church calendar. The Sermones de sanctis contains sermons for the feast days of the saints (the Sermones dominicales contains sermons for Sundays, and the Quadragesimale contains sermons for Lent).
Restored, contemporary leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled with triple fillets into geometric panels, corners and fields impressed with a repertoire of geometric and vegetal single stamps (including palmettes and heart-with-arrow tools set within rhomboid frameworks). Original clasp fittings present but hooks lost. A special feature of the binding is the leather strap braided headband visible on the spine.
istc io00117500., GW M23205., RMK III 47., CIH 2485., Borda MM5: 2A (38).