In-24° : 318-[2]-[4 bl.] pp. (copy slightly browned, some scattered foxing, two with perforations). Contemporary binding : vellum with visible sewing and small flaps, flat spine with ink title, sprinkled edges (ties lacking, slightly dark). FIRST EDITION of this moral work giving advices to live righteously based on the translation of the sermons of Tauler. The Dominican mystic from Strasbourg (c. 1300-1361), disciple of Meister Eckhart, promoted a certain neo-platonism in the spirituality of his order. Small woodcut on title-page. # Adams T 274; # Soltész T 58; # VD 16 J 780 and 781; # not in USTC nor in Machiels. Provenance : Jesuit College of Ingolstadt, 1607 (handwritten mention); Robert Tarner (id.). BOUND WITH : VIEXMONT, Claude de.- Brevis institutio de salutari poenitentia peccatoris [...]. Antverpiae, apud Joannem Bellerum, 1586, [22]-359-[1] pp. (same condition, marginal tear repaired in p. 248). QUITE RARE EDITION of this manual of penance by the Parisian theologist Claude de Viexmont, professor of theology to The College of Navarre. # BT 4767; # USTC 406738; # not in Soltész, Machiels, Adams. IFHZ Édition originale de ce traité de morale basé sur la traduction des sermons du mystique dominicain Tauler. Plein vélin de l'ép. (ex. lég. bruni). Relié avec un traité sur la pénitence de Viexmont.
In-24° : 318-[2]-[4 bl.] pp. (copy slightly browned, some scattered foxing, two with perforations). Contemporary binding : vellum with visible sewing and small flaps, flat spine with ink title, sprinkled edges (ties lacking, slightly dark). FIRST EDITION of this moral work giving advices to live righteously based on the translation of the sermons of Tauler. The Dominican mystic from Strasbourg (c. 1300-1361), disciple of Meister Eckhart, promoted a certain neo-platonism in the spirituality of his order. Small woodcut on title-page. # Adams T 274; # Soltész T 58; # VD 16 J 780 and 781; # not in USTC nor in Machiels. Provenance : Jesuit College of Ingolstadt, 1607 (handwritten mention); Robert Tarner (id.). BOUND WITH : VIEXMONT, Claude de.- Brevis institutio de salutari poenitentia peccatoris [...]. Antverpiae, apud Joannem Bellerum, 1586, [22]-359-[1] pp. (same condition, marginal tear repaired in p. 248). QUITE RARE EDITION of this manual of penance by the Parisian theologist Claude de Viexmont, professor of theology to The College of Navarre. # BT 4767; # USTC 406738; # not in Soltész, Machiels, Adams. IFHZ Édition originale de ce traité de morale basé sur la traduction des sermons du mystique dominicain Tauler. Plein vélin de l'ép. (ex. lég. bruni). Relié avec un traité sur la pénitence de Viexmont.
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