Live auction - Lot 809
[Latin poetry]
Cyclopaediae Anticlaudiani seu De officio viri boni libri novem, heroico carmine conscripti.
Antwerp, J. Trognesius, 1621
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: [8]-156-[2-2 bl.] pp. (part of final blank cut off).
Contemp. overl. vellum (loose at end, soiled). Good copy.
Rare Antwerp ed. of the Anticlaudianus, an allegorical poem on the good and perfect man, by the theologian and poet Alain de Lille (1128-1202). Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. Donnet (Trognesius) 93. - Simoni (BL) A-54. - STCV.
Prov. "Carthusiae Capellae" (= Carthusian monastery of Scheut) (ms. entry on front flyleaf).