Live auction - Lot 1048
[Mysticism]
De perfecto mundi contemptu opsuculum.
[Lyon, J. J. Giunta, 1579]
Hammer price: €
150
€ 150 / 180
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Lot description
16mo: [12]-553 pp.
Old sheep, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt interior border, red edges, marbled endpapers (rubbed). Good copy.
Rare Lyon ed. of a major work of the Limburg mystic Denis the Carthusian (Van Leeuwen, Van Ryckel, 1402-1471). It forms the 2nd part, complete in itself, of a combined ed. with the Imitatio Christi (= Pt. 1, not present).
Ref. Baudrier VI:373-374.
Prov. Fromont (ms. entry on title). - Meigret (19th-c. ms. entry).
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