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HUMBERTUS MONTISMORETANUS. (Humbert de Montmoret). Christis: Complectens purissimam saluatoris nostri iesu natiuitatem: preclara dicta: miracula: passionem decensum ad inferos. (And:) Ad (…) Ioannem Rocelletum thesaurarium panegyricus. Lyon, (M. Parmentier, c. 1525). (88) lvs., last blank (A-L8). W. 2 woodcuts on ti-pp. - Bound with: EOBANUS HESSUS. Heroidum libri tres. Hagenau, Secer, 1532. (82) lvs. W. ti. printed within woodcut border. - 2 in 1 vol. Cont. limp vellum. (Ties (partly) gone, vellum stained, contents stained more or less throughout).
Ad 1: Only edition of this Life of Christ in Latin verse by the French Benedictine monk Humbert de Montmoret (d. 1525), preceding the more widely known "Christias" of M.G. Vida (1535). - Extremely rare. Baudrier X, 397; Brunet II, 371 (wrong collation!). Ad 2: Helius Eobanus Hessus (1488-1540) was a German Latin poet born at Halgehausen in Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). - Very rare. VD 16, E-1507. Not in Adams, Soltèsz. This work was reprinted in 1970.€ 750
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