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Sermones Thesauri novi de tempore

Author: Peter Paludanus (ca. 1275–1342)
Created:1487
Dimensions:28.90 × 20.10 cm

The French theologian and archbishop Petrys Paludinus (12751342) was a Dominican friar. After graduating from university in Paris, he worked mainly as a teacher of theology, and was also an emissary of Pope John XXII in organising the Crusades and in negotiations with the Sultan about the deliverance of Palestine. Paludinus wrote most of his theological works for the King of France, who used them to support him in his ideological deliberations with the Pope. His book Sermones Thesauri novi de tempore is an incunabulum. An incunabulum (from Latin incunabula, ‘cradle, swaddling clothes’) is a book from the earliest period of printing, published between 1456 and 1500. There were 1,099 printing presses in operation in 246 European cities in the second half of the 15th century, which printed about 40,000 titles of incunabula. Most are religious. Lithuania’s institutional and private libraries have about 510 incunabula in their collections.

Text authors Rolandas Gustaitis and Algimantas Muzikevičius.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album ARS LIBRI (2022). Compiler Algimantas Muzikevičius, text authors Algimantas Muzikevičius, Rolandas Gustaitis