Tauler (Johannes). Tam de Tempore quam de Sanctis Homilie, Operaq; eiusdem alia Pietati quam maxime infe inservientia, summo studio recens ab ipso interprete Laurentio Surio recognita, & Homiliis Epistolisque aliquot modo primum additis..., Cologne: exofficima Haeredum Joannis Quentel, 1553, title with printers woodcut device, 742pp (including 8 unnumbered preliminary pages of index at end), woodcut initials, including large woodcut initial to dedication leaf, light water stains to title, early (17th century) neat ownership inscription in ink to foot of title 'Ex libris Joh. Egolphi à Knoringen', and slightly later ink inscription to head of title 'Bibliothecae Academicae Ingolstad', neat 20th-century owners name DL Cumming to upper outer corner of title, front endpaper missing, contemporary blind-stamped pig skin over wooden boards, with brass clasps, in working order, a little rubbed and some light discolouration, folio Adams T276. First edition of the sermons of the Dominican mystical preacher Johann Tauler (circa 1300-1361), translated from the German into Latin by Laurentius Surius (1522-1578), of the Charterhouse of St. Barbara, Cologne, who published several translations of the so-called Rhine land mystics, including Tauler, Henry Suso, and John of Ruysbroeck.
Tauler (Johannes). Tam de Tempore quam de Sanctis Homilie, Operaq; eiusdem alia Pietati quam maxime infe inservientia, summo studio recens ab ipso interprete Laurentio Surio recognita, & Homiliis Epistolisque aliquot modo primum additis..., Cologne: exofficima Haeredum Joannis Quentel, 1553, title with printers woodcut device, 742pp (including 8 unnumbered preliminary pages of index at end), woodcut initials, including large woodcut initial to dedication leaf, light water stains to title, early (17th century) neat ownership inscription in ink to foot of title 'Ex libris Joh. Egolphi à Knoringen', and slightly later ink inscription to head of title 'Bibliothecae Academicae Ingolstad', neat 20th-century owners name DL Cumming to upper outer corner of title, front endpaper missing, contemporary blind-stamped pig skin over wooden boards, with brass clasps, in working order, a little rubbed and some light discolouration, folio Adams T276. First edition of the sermons of the Dominican mystical preacher Johann Tauler (circa 1300-1361), translated from the German into Latin by Laurentius Surius (1522-1578), of the Charterhouse of St. Barbara, Cologne, who published several translations of the so-called Rhine land mystics, including Tauler, Henry Suso, and John of Ruysbroeck.
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