Live veiling - Lot 1129
[Devotion]
Dux Peccatorum. Opusculum valde pium, in duos libros distributum: quo peccatores a via vitiorum & perditionis ad regiam virtutum ac salutis aeternae viam perducuntur.
Cologne, A. Quentell, 1608
€ 120 / 150
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Beschrijving lot
12mo: [45-3 bl.]-863-[1 bl.] pp. (some browning & spotting).
Contemp. blind-ruled overl. vellum, flat spine with later title and libr. number, ties (flyleaves gone). Good copy.
Ascetical work by Luis de Granada (1504-1588), Dominican Friar, first publ. in Spanish in 1556, and here in a Latin translation by M. von Isselt. This work has been compared with Thomas à Kempis' "De imitatione Christi" and has been translated in several languages. Large woodcut mark on title.
Ref. VD17 12:102883M.
Prov. Ms. entry on title.