RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS’ SALE 12th -13th December 2023

785. Landmark in Irish Printed Literature Incunabula: O'Fahily (Maurice) Duns Scotus Joannes: O’Fihely, Maurice Abp. Questiones subtilissme Scoti in metaphysicam Aristotelis Folio Venice (Octavianus Scoti) 20th November 1497. First Edn., 131 leaves (include. the rare title page), very fine wd. cut initials thro.-out, bound in later decorated vellum binding, composed from leaves from an old antiphonary. An extraordinarily fine copy of this rarity. Sweeney 1603. Emf. (1) The above volume is a landmark in Irish Bibliography. It is in fact, the First Edition of the First Book by the First Irish Author to write for a Printing Press rather than the Scriptorium . €8,000 - €12,000 109 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934