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E-052. Very Good. Hardcover. Vellum. Folio. Berlaer, Basileae, (Basel, Switzerland). 1515. 221, [1] leaves. (AA-BB6, a-z6, A-O6, with O6 a blank). Title-page printed in red & black, with decorative woodcut borders and printer's device; woodcut initials within. Text in double column and in Latin. Bound in vellum. Boards recased with a new spine present (18th century work). Vellum worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present (boards are lightly soiled and worn; also recased). Book is free of ownership marks. Folios 1-56 are rubricated, and most leaves have neat manuscript headings in an early hand.. Binding tight and solid. Pierre Bersuire (c. 1290–1362) , also known as Pierre Bercheure and Pierre Berchoire (in Latin, Petrus Berchorius or Petrus Bercorius) , was a French author of the Middle Ages. A Benedictine, he was a translator, encyclopaedist, and the author of several works, including the Ovidius Moralizatus (not to be confused with the Ovide Moralisé) (1340) , a work of mythography. The Gesta Romanorum, a Latin collection of anecdotes and tales, is sometimes attributed to him. Bersuire was an eloquent preacher and a voluminous homiletical writer. His most important work is the Repertorium morale, for the use of preachers, a kind of Biblico-moral dictionary, in which the principal words of Scripture are arranged alphabetically and moral reflections attached thereto. E-052; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .