Suite de l'Imitation de Jesus-Christ, ou les Opuscules de Thomas a Kempis, Traduits du Latin d'Horstius. Par Monsieur l'Abbe de Bellegarde . Cinquieme edition

Thomas a Kempis

Verlag: De l'imprimerie de Jacques Collombat, 1738

In French. 1738 fifth edition De l'Imprimerie de Jacques Collombat (Paris), 2 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches tall full leather bound, five raised bands, ornate gilt decoration and gilt-lettered black leather label to spine, engraved title page with engraved headpieces and other printer's devices, [22], 356, [18] pp. Covers rubbed and edgeworn. Lacking blank front free-endpaper (otherwise complete). Pen notations to half title page. Monastic stamp from Princethorpe Priory, an English Benedictine monastery, to title page. A few pages with light soiling or creasing to a page tip. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce edition of the 'minor works' of Thomas a Kempis. OCLC (Nos. 490260237, 799435842 and 407082944) locates only three copies of this edition worldwide - two in Paris, at Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve and Bibliotheque Nationale de France; one in Lyon, France, at Bibliotheque Municipale de Lyon; and one at Biblioteca San Bernardino in Trento, Italy. ~KM4~ Translations from Latin of the 'minor works' of Thomas a Kempis (circa 1380-1471), Augustinian monk, priest, copyist and scholar, and the author of 'The Imitation of Christ,' one of the best known Christian devotional works. Includes The Soliloquy of the Soul, The Three Tabernacles, Of True Compunction of the Heart, An Exhortation to Spiritual Advancement and Kempis' work on humility as the basis for all virtues. Translated into French by Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde (1648-1734), a Jesuit in France for 15 years before joining Francis de Sales's order. Abbe de Bellegarde used the version of Kempis' opera omnia edited by Jacob Merlo Horstius (1597-1644), a prominent doctor of theology known as an effective preacher at the Lyskirchen in Cologne. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers KM4-0941-1480

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Titel: Suite de l'Imitation de Jesus-Christ, ou les...
Verlag: De l'imprimerie de Jacques Collombat
Erscheinungsdatum: 1738
Einband: Leather Bound
Zustand: Good