Live auction - Lot 721
[Monastic life - Leuven]
Quid sit divinum officium. Qui horas legere teneantur. De modo recitandi divinum officium. Expositio in orationem dominicam Mathaei 8. [and similar short texts].
[Leuven, ca. 1557-1578]
€ 1.500 / 2.000
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Lot description
8vo (ca. 21 x 15,5 cm): [28] ff. (mod. pencil foliation), on paper, in Latin, Gothic script.
Contemp. vellum wrappers (over pasted paper), black painted map, with flap (with underlying text part. visible). In good condition.
Small manual with instructions for monastic novices, most probably for use in the Leuven Sint-Maartensdal monastery. On f. 1r quotations from Guilielmus Parisiensis and St. Benedict.
Ref. W. Lourdaux & M. Haverals, Bibliotheca Vallis Sancti Martini in Lovanio. 1978, pp. 628-629, nr. 137 (olim private collection W. Lourdaux).
Prov. "Venerandi p[at]ris d[omi]ni hereberti veen supprioris Martinensis" (16th c., front endpaper). - [W. Lourdaux, Leuven].