Live auction - Lot 1047

[Mysticism - Antwerp imprint]

DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIANUS

De perfecto mundi contemptu opusculum [...].

Antwerp, J. Latius, 1551


Hammer price: € 350

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Lot description

16mo: [8]-368 ff. (f. 8 (blank?) missing; toned, 1st ff. stained, some marginal dampstaining).

Contemp. blind-decorated calf, spine with 4 raised bands (rubbed and clumsily repaired, inner hinges strengthened with cloth). Good copy.

Unrecorded Latius only issue of an Antwerp ed. of this major work by the Limburg mystic Denis the Carthusian (Van Leeuwen, Van Ryckel, 1402-1471). Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. Cp. BT 906 = Pettegree (NB) 9879 (Latius for Steelsius).
Joined: Innocentius III - De contemptu mundi sive De miseria humanae conditionis libri tres. Leuven, J. Heyberg for H. Wellaeus, 1574. 12mo: [2]-56-[2] ff. (title stained). Contemp. vellum (almost loose, another work taken out, endpapers lifted). Ref. BT 1569. Prov. Libr. stamp. (2 vol.)

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Lot 1047

De perfecto mundi contemptu opusculum [...].

DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIANUS

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