Live auction - Lot 1212
[Leuven - Park Abbey]
Summaria cronologia insignis ecclesiae. Parchensis ordinis praemonstratensis sitae prope muros oppidi Lovaniensis.
Leuven, P. Sassenus, 1662
Hammer price: €
280
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
8vo: 8-[2]-472 [=462]-[22] pp. (browning, spotting & some staining, a few ms. notes, missing last leaf 3O4, as in most copies (blank?)).
Contemp. marbled sheep, gilt spine with 5 raised bands (back joint splitting, sm. def. at head). Good copy.
Very rare first and only edition of the history of the Premonstratensian Park Abbey in Heverlee, south of Leuven, by its influential abbot Libertus de Paepe (1648-1682). Intended for internal use.
Ref. STCV.
Bound with: Chronicon contractum insignis ecclesiae Parchensis ordinis praemonstratensis juxta muros Lovanienses. Leuven, P.A. Denique, 1726. 21-[3 bl.] pp. (some ms. notes). Ref. STCV.