Flores, de veris virtutibus, collecti et latinitate donati à D. Antonio Hermetio, canonico regulari. Eiusdem tractatus brevis, de praeparatione ad bonam mortem.

24mo: 318-[2]-[4 bl.] pp. (copy sl. browned, some scattered foxing, two with perforations).

Contemp. overl. vellum with visible sewing, flat spine with ink title, sprinkled edges (sl. dark).

First edition of this moral work giving advices on living righteously based on the translation of the sermons of Tauler. The Dominican mystic from Strasbourg (ca. 1300-1361), disciple of Meister Eckhart, promoted a certain neo-platonism in the spirituality of his order. Small woodcut on title-page.
Ref. Adams T 274. - VD16 J-780 and 781. - Not in USTC, STC German, Machiels.
Bound with: Viexmont, Claude de - Brevis institutio de salutari poenitentia peccatoris [...]. Antwerp, J. Beller, 1586, [22]-359-[1] pp. (same condition, marginal tear repaired in p. 248). Quite rare edition of this manual of penance by the Parisian theologist Claude de Viexmont, professor of theology at The College of Navarre. Ref. BT 4767. - USTC 406738. - Not in Machiels, Adams.
Prov. Jesuit College of Ingolstadt, 1607 (ms. ownership entry). - Robert Tarner (id.).