Domini Haymonis Episcopi Halberstattensis Homiliarum, siue Concionum popularium. Seriem sermonum Dominicarum, feriarum, at[que] etia[m] de sanctis sequens indicabit pagella. Pars aestivalis.

[Paris: Antoine Bonnmère?], 1533.

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xi [i.e. viii], 9-234 [i.e. 232], ccxxxv-ccxlv [i.e. ccxliii, 1] leaves; A-Z8, Aa-Gg8, Hh4. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, covers with blind-ruled borders and central ornamental frame enclosing two embossed medallion portraits separated by letters “T P”; brass catches and clasps missing or defective; covers detached and spine disintegrating; text somewhat stained and soiled, first leaf A1 detached and stained; rear endsheets filled with intriguing notes in English in a 16th-century hand, and early marginalia in English throughout. Moreau, Inventaire IV, 560; OCLC: 789262490 (3 copies: UNIV DE SALAMANCA SVC DE ARCH BIBLIO; BN; and HRC).

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A rare printing of these Sermons on religious holidays by the 9th century Benedictine monk and prolific author, Haymon of Halberstadt (d. 843), who was appointed Bishop of Halberstadt in 840. OCLC locates three copies -- only one in American institutions.