A Bishop's Sammelband including a "Lost Book" - "Codex vesperiarum de optima politia" - Jehan Petit - 1512 - Post-Incunable

A Bishop's Sammelband including a unique "Lost Book" - A Post-incunable printed by Jehan (Jean) Petit - Paris 1512

This sammelband includes three works in one published by the famous Parisian printers Josse Bade and Jean Petit, bound in an early 18th Century binding for Francois de Nesmont - Bishop of Bayeux (1629-1715).

Jean Petit's 1512 edition of "Codex vesperiarum de optima politia tam ecclesiastica quam civili" - (A code of  ecclesiastical and civil Vespers) is not recorded in any other surviving copies on USTC.

Jean Petit and Josse Bade were two of the major Parisian printers and booksellers for the University of Paris at the turn of the 16th Century. They were hugely successful in disseminating early renaissance humanism, and became prosperous with a near monopoly of the early printing for the University of Paris.

Three titles bound as one:

1) Codex vesperiarum de optima politia tam ecclesiastica quam civili

Jean Petit 1512 - ff [16] - USTC 187228 - NO COPIES (Lost book)

2) Epistolae paraenetica observationis regulae Benedictine ad Sagienses monachos

Josse Bade und Jean Petit 1512 - [68] -  USTC 180688 (4 Copies only)

3) De animi tranquilitate libri duo

Josse Bade  1512 - ff [6] I LXXIII [1] - USTC 143919 (5 Copies only)

Condition: 

Loosening of boards and wear with losses to head and tail of the spine. Some loosening to text block.

The books describe early modern theology by Charles Fernand and Marc de Grandval. These were important Parisian theologians who wrote commentaries on the soul, Religious wisdom and customs.

This is an interesting example of early printing as it shows the close collaboration between Bade and Petit. A second imprint of this text, which survives in 3 copies, was also published in the same year, but with the printers mark of Josse Bade (USTC 180755). The same text setting and layout was used for both imprints, but the different Printers marks of Bade and Petit were used, presumably so that the copies could be sold in their separate premises under their own names.