1968 Johannes de Turrecremata Meditationes

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

In the publisher's original leatherette binding.

This copy faithfully replicates the original's woodcut coloured illustrations and Latin text, offering scholars and collectors insight into early prints of devotional literature.

This volume is a facsimile edition of the first print from 1467 incunabulum, notable as the first illustrated book printed in Italy, and is based on the copy in the Nuremburg City Library.

Juan de Torquemada (Ecclesiastical Latin: Johannes de Turrecremata, various spellings) O.P. (1388 – 26 September 1468) was a Spanish ecclesiastic, defender of Jewish conversos, and has been described as the most articulate papal apologist of the fifteenth century.