Live auction - Lot 1248
Live auction - Lot 1248
[Devotion - Antwerp]
Hortulus animae officium beatae Mariae virginis, ad usum novi breviarii romani, sacro-sancti Concilii tridentini in tria tempora distinctum [...].
Antwerp, G. Bellerus, 1620
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
12mo: [12]-607-[1] pp. (browning, some ff. dampstained).
Contemp. calf, spine with raised bands (used, upper front joint begins to split, sm. lack on tail and head, pastedowns and flyleaves renewed).
Extremely rare Bellerus edition of this popular prayer book "Hortulus animae" (Little Garden of the Soul), according to Tridentine use. Printed in black with red rubrics and initials. Ill. with an engr. title, 19 fine engravings and ornamental woodcuts throughout.
Ref. KVK (2 copies: Staatliche Bibliothek Neuburg an der Donau, Bibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München). - Not in BCNI, STCV, USTC, STC Low Countries 1601-1621 (BL).