Viola animae.

16mo: [8]-191-[1] ff. (margins stained).

Cont. limp Flemish panel stamped calf, covers with nice blind-stamped animals (dragons etc.), spine on 3 raised bands (loosening, rubbed, head and tail dam., front cover cut into, catches and clasps gone, endpapers lifted and loose). Good copy.

Small-format ed. of a popular work (1st Cologne 1499) by the Carthusian prior of Zelem (Diest) Petrus Dorlandus (1454-1507). It contains 7 dialogues on the duties of men to other men and God, 6 of them based on the "Theologia naturalis" of the Catalan philosopher Raymond of Sabunde (1385-1436). Woodcut at the end. Title printed within woodcut border. Ref. NKr 735 (i.a. this copy). - BCNI 1260. - Pettegree NB 10224. - Adams D-844. - Not in BnF, STC Dutch (BL). Prov. On front flyleaf "Bibliothecae Carmelitarum Gerardimontensium [...] 1697". - "E[miel] v[an] H[oof] 4|38" (pencil note on lower flyleaf).