Een deuote maniere om gheestelyck pelgrimagie te trecken/ tot den heylighen lande/ als te Jherusalem/ Bethleem/ ter Jordanen/ &c. […].

8vo: 159 ff. (final bl. missing; marg. staining, some thumbing and traces of use).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine (loosening at front, warped and soiled, endpapers lifted). Good copy.

Imaginary pilgrimage from Leuven to the Holy Land, with spiritual meditations at fixed places. It helped to formalize the Low Countries devotion to the Lord’s Passion. The author was a Leuven Carmelite theologian (d. 1539). Woodcut arms on title, 57 woodcuts in-text (incl. repeats, i.a. the Church of Jerusalem). Printed in Gothic type.
Ref. BT 6502. - STCV.
Bound before: Vrancx, Cornelis Columbanus - Een schoon deuoot kerck-Boecxken. Dat is maniere om wel ter kercken te gaen/ ende daer wel te bidden/ sermoenen en misse te hooren ter zalicheyt. Ghent, G. Manilius, 1607 (col.: 1608). [2]-550-[8] pp. Only ed., written in prose and verse, of one of the countless writings of the Dendermonde born Ghent Benedictine Vrancx (d. 1615). Woodcut mark on title. Printed in Gothic type, with passages in civilité. Ref. BB V:784:V-304. - Bibl. Gant. 471. - STCV.