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Olivier Maillard

SERMONES

Sequuntur quattuor sermones comunes per adventum et consequenter dominicales sermones

Paris, Jehan Petit; 1500 - 1515

5 volumes

Rare testimony on the slang language of the end of the Middle Ages.

Size: 4 by 6"

Lacks title page of 1st volume

Otherwise very good condition

Text in Gothic characters on two columns

Typographic mark of the Parisian printer Jean Petit on the titles

18th century brown calfskin

spine with ornate bands, red title and volume numbers, blind fillet framing the covers, marbled edges.

The first volume slightly larger than the others.

Some old hand coloring.

Provenance:

From the library of Charles Henneguier (19th century stamp)

Text in Latin

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Olivier Maillard (1430- 1502), Franciscan friar, was one of the greatest Franciscan preachers of the late 15th century and confessor to King Charles VIII. He owes his reputation to the brutality of his sermons where he borrows from those he blames a coarse language, peppered with words taken from the wrong places.

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