Live auction - Lot 673
[Devotion - Leuven imprint]
Tract binding with 5 extremely rare devotional works in Dutch, printed in Leuven (1563-1572) and Antwerp (1564).
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
8vo, printed in Gothic type (somewhat short occ. shaving headlines, page numerals or sheet signatures, some soiling or staining, A2 of 1st work loosening).
Old blind-ruled mottled calf, covers with triple blind-ruled border, spine with raised bands (sm. holes at tail). Good copy.
1. Alcantara, Pedro de - Een seer deuoot ende excellent boecxken vanden ghebeden, meditatien, ende contemplatien [...] ghetranslateert wt den Spaensche in onse nederlantsche taele [...]. Leuven, M. Verhasselt, 1565. cclx [= 260]-[3-1 bl.] pp. Dedicated to the abbot of Villers. Woodcut on verso of title. Ref. BCNI 2959. - Not in Adams, BT, Pettegree (NB), STCV, USTC, World Cat, etc. - 2. Pascha, Jan - Een deuote maniere om gheestelyck pelgrimagie te trecken, tot den heylighen lande als te Jherusalem, Bethleem, ter Jordanen, etc. [...]. Leuven, S. Valerius for H. Welle, 1563. [3]-cliiij [= 155]-[1] ff. (final f. with woodcut missing). 1 full-page and 73 smaller woodcuts. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. BT 3938. - BCNI 2835. - 3. Amelry, Franciscus - Veel schoone beweghelike en[de] vierighe ghebede[n] [...]. Antwerp, Cl. vanden Wouwere, 13 October 1565. [12 (of 44] ff. (quires A-D missing). Ref. BB I:69:A-27. - BT 103. - Not in BCNI. - 4. Suso, Henricus - Die seuen ghetijden van die Eeuwige wiisheyt [...] wt den Latijne nieus ouergheseds in onse sprake door M. Peeter Calentijn [...]. Leuven, H. Welle, 1572. 44 ff. Full-page woodcuts on verso of title and on ff. 19v, 44r, 44v. Ref. World Cat (1: Darmstadt). - BCNI 3379. - Not in Adams, BT, Pettegree (NB), STCV, USTC, etc. - 5. Calentijn, Peeter - Van den heylighen sacramente des autaers, vijf sonderlinghe leeringhen [...]. Leuven, H. Welle, 1569. [8] ff. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. Not in Adams, BCNI, BT, Pettegree (NB), STCV, USTC, World Cat, etc.
Prov. "Keysere 1583" at top of 1st title (old ms. entry). - Another one on 2nd title (id.). - Petrus Toelen, Maastricht canon (engr. bookpl.).
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