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Bruno (of Cologne, 1030-1101). Opera & Vita post Indicem serie literaria indicanda, 1524 Saint Bruno (of Cologne, 1030-1101). Opera & Vita post Indicem serie literaria indicanda, [Paris]: Venunda[n]tur Jodoco Badio Ascensio, 1524, 8 preliminary leaves, 520 numbered folio leaves, fine woodcut title with text printed in red and black and central illustration of the 'Prelum Ascensianum' printing press (attributed to Durer), main text in double-column, 9-line, 6-line, and 3-line historiated woodcut initials, six large woodcut illustrations to the Vita, a good clean copy with wide margins, a few light marks to title, final few leaves with archival restoration to inner margins (slightly affecting one or two printed marginalia), 20th century bookplate of Bruno S. James to front pastedown, 20th century full pigskin (by W. H. Smith & Son Ltd.) with their blind stamp to rear pastedown, thick folio QTY: (1) NOTE: Brunet I, 1296; Adams B2936; CLC B2494; Renouard II, 227-229. Saint Bruno of Cologne (1030-1101), founder of the Carthusian order at Chartreuse in 1084, was beatified by Pope Leo X in 1514, and later canonised in 1623.