Exercitia [...] piissima, super vita et passione Salvatoris nostri Iesu Christi [...].

8vo: 169-[2-1 bl.] ff. (cut short, occ. shaving sheet signatures).

Old leather, richly gilt spine with 5 raised bands, sp. edges (rubbed at edges and joints, head & tail def.).

Latin translation from German of a popular medieval devotional work on the Lord’s Passion by the German mystic Tauler (1300-1361), here edited by N. Esschius (1507-1578), priest of the Diest beguinage.
Ref. BT 1641. - Pettegree (NB) 28898. - Trouffaut 1819.
Bound with at the end: short 16th-c. manuscript on ruled paper, [7-1 bl.] ff., with a Latin text on Carthusians and a French Saints’ calendar.
Prov. Armorial red wax seal on front endpaper (name on 1st title + note on front endpaper).