Den wech des leuens. Een gheestelijck boecxken leere[n]de hoe dat ee[n] goet kerste[n] mensch moet beghinne[n] en[de] voortgaen in duechden nu weder om met groote neersticheyt ouersien ende verbetert [...], gecorrigeert door broer Claes Zegers/ minderbroeder.

8vo: [228] ff. (minor toning or marginal dampstaining, wormhole in blank margin of quires A-B, R-Y).

Contemp. panel-stamped gold-tooled calf, dated "ANNO | 1566" (front cover), covers with gilt roll-stamps and gilt central panel (upper cover: Annunciation with subscription "Ecce conci[pies] et paries filium", Judges 13:7; lower cover: Nativity with subscription "Puer nat[us] [est] et fili[us] dat[us] [est] nobis", Isaiah 9:6), gilt spine with 4 raised bands, gilt gauffered edges (sl. rubbed and loosening, front joint split, leather parts of spine loosening, clasps and catches gone). Good copy.

Rare devotional treatise (1st: 1542) by the Leuven Carthusian Floris van Haarlem, edited by the Franciscan Claes Zegers. Large woodcut mark at the end. Title printed in red and black within border of type ornaments. Printed in gothic type.
Ref. BT 5806. - BCNI 2870. - Pettegree NB 14157.
Prov. Old ownership entries on title (crossed out at top), i.a. "[...] cornelius claes [...]".
Joined: Het seldsaem leven, uyt-muntende deughden, en de wonderlycke doodt van den H. Alexius, oorsprongh der alexianen (gheseyt celle-broeders) [...]. Ghent, heir of M. Graet, 1686. 12mo. 19th-c. half vellum. Ill. with 4 plates. Prov. Bookpl. (2 vol.)