Postincunable Printed Cologne (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. Torrentinus, Hermann. Hymni et sequentie cu[m] diligenti difficillimorum. Cologne, Martin von Werden, c1508. 4to. [46]leaves. Gothic type. With large title woodcut showing a teacher at his desk with 4 pupils below (repeated on last page). Polished calf, gilt line border. A Dutch humanist interpretation of early Christian hymns telling the story of the gospels by the 5th century Roman poet Coelius Sedulius which partly passed into the liturgy. Instructions on the correct use of the hymns are given according to the seasons of the year. The last chapter consists of a dialogue in Latin and Low German between two school boys concerning bad behaviour in church. The author, Hermann van der Beeke (1472-1520) of Zwolle, was a teacher of rhetoric at the school of the Brothers of the Common Life at Groningen. A rare early Cologne imprint, well preserved with occasional contemporary manuscript notes in Latin in margins. Not listed in the British Library Catalogue. Adams records no copy in Cambridge libraries.