Lavacrum conscientie [omnium sacerdotum].

[JACOBUS DE GRUYTRODE, (attr.)].

Verlag: [Colophon:] Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, 1504., 1504

Beschreibung

4to, ff.[i], 57, [1]; gothic letter in two columns, with a woodcut initial at beginning of text; occasional minor marginal dampstaining, wormhole in text sometimes resulting in loss of a letter (sense recoverable), but a very good copy in early nineteenth-century boards, red morocco lettering-piece on spine; slightly rubbed, upper joint cracked but firm; from the library of Robert Crewe-Milnes, first Marquess of Crewe (1858 1945), with bookplate.Rare edition of this popular late medieval treatise widely ascribed to the Carthusian monk Jacobus de Gruytrode (c.1400 1475). Essentially a handbook for priests, with a significant devotional element, it was first published between 1487 and 1489. According to Theodor Petreius, Bibliotheca Cartusiana (Cologne, 1609), the actual author is Johannes Meskirchius (Messkirch, d.1511), a monk at the charterhouse of Güterstein near Stuttgart (for Messkirch see R.Deigendesch, 'Bücher und ihre Schenker Die Bücherlisten der Kartause Güterstein in Württemberg', in S.Lorenz, ed., Bücher, Bibliotheken und Schriftkultur der Kartäuser. Festgabe zum 65.Geburtstag von Edward Potkowski, Stuttgart 2002, pp.93 115).VD16 J 105. OCLC records only two copies outside Germany (National Library of Sweden and St.Bonaventure University). Not found in Library Hub. Language: Latin. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers C2520

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Lavacrum conscientie [omnium sacerdotum].

Verlag: [Colophon:] Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, 1504.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1504

Einband: Hardcover