JOHANNES VON WERDEN. Sermones dormi secure de tempore. - Sermones dormi secure de sanctis. S.l.n.d. [Speyer, Peter Drach, ca. 1492]. 2 parts in one volume in-4, fawn calf, spine decorated, red edges (18th century binding). A very rare incunabulum published in Speyer by Peter Drach (1455?-1504), a printer, bookseller and bookbinder from a family of wealthy notables from this Rhineland city. The two collections of sermons known as the Dormi secure, attributed to the Franciscan Johannes von Werden († 1437), Johannes de Verdena in Latin, were published in at least thirty-five editions between 1477 and 1500. This edition is printed in Gothic script in two columns of 42 lines, with a separate title page and a table in each part. This incunabulum is extremely rare, especially when complete with both parts. There is no copy in French public collections, and nearly half of the 31 copies located worldwide (including 3 in the United States) by the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue are incomplete or lacking in one part. This copy is entirely rubricated and decorated with large initials painted in red and blue. Early marginalia in brown ink (quite extensive on ff. g5-6 and R1-2). Heads and corners worn and missing, two jaws split, worm work in the margins of the first few leaves and a few worm holes in the margins, scattered dampstains and stains, marginal loss on f. G5. ISTC, ij00464000 - Hain, 15955* - Goff, J464 - Polain, 4720 - GW, M14955.