Large in-12° : [1]-lvii-[1]-[1 bl.] lvs (copy slightly browned, dampstains, hole due to burning in lf. ii and another small in lf. vii). 17th century binding : half marbled calf, paper boards, flat spine (dampstain on the upper pastedown and flyleaf, the lower ones browned). VERY EARLY POST-INCUNABULUM of this moral work for priesthood under the form of stories and precepts showing the vacuity of the life's pleasures outside the monastic one, by de Gruytrode (+ 1472), Cartusian prior in Liège. # VD 16 J 106; # USTC 670732 (different title and address but same collation); # not in Adams, Machiels, Soltész, STC French. Provenance : Jacques Rijs, from the Hermits of Saint Augustine, former name of the order of Saint Augustine (handwritten mention from 1600). ¶ Post-incunable de cet ouvrage moral par le prieur chartreux de Liège, de Gruytrode. Demi-veau du 17e s. (ex. lég. bruni, mouill.).
Large in-12° : [1]-lvii-[1]-[1 bl.] lvs (copy slightly browned, dampstains, hole due to burning in lf. ii and another small in lf. vii). 17th century binding : half marbled calf, paper boards, flat spine (dampstain on the upper pastedown and flyleaf, the lower ones browned). VERY EARLY POST-INCUNABULUM of this moral work for priesthood under the form of stories and precepts showing the vacuity of the life's pleasures outside the monastic one, by de Gruytrode (+ 1472), Cartusian prior in Liège. # VD 16 J 106; # USTC 670732 (different title and address but same collation); # not in Adams, Machiels, Soltész, STC French. Provenance : Jacques Rijs, from the Hermits of Saint Augustine, former name of the order of Saint Augustine (handwritten mention from 1600). ¶ Post-incunable de cet ouvrage moral par le prieur chartreux de Liège, de Gruytrode. Demi-veau du 17e s. (ex. lég. bruni, mouill.).
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