Lavacrum Conscientie (5 results)

Small 8vo, ff.cix, [3]; large woodcut printer's device to title, initials; a couple of small wormholes, small interlinear worm track to ff.xixxxvi, small marginal hole to last leaf, some marginal damp-staining and occasional slight foxing; else a very good copy in nineteenth-century sheep, covers blind-tooled with repeated floral stamps, spine lettered in gilt, edges red, decorative endpapers; extremities rubbed; book label of the Belgian collector Anselm van den Bogaerde (17761866) to front pastedown, pencil notes to front free endpaper.Rare edition of this popular late medieval treatise, 'The Bath of Conscience', widely ascribed to the Carthusian monk and prior of Liège, Jacobus de Gruytrode (d.1475).Essentially a handbook for priests, it was first published in the late 1480s. The text, arranged in twenty-one chapters, discusses, inter alia, sacerdotal ornaments; alms giving; prayer; the vice of lust; preaching; ecclesiastical benefices and the abuse thereof; and priestly misdemeanours; and ends with an extended devotional section on Christ's Passion.Numerous exempla are supplied along the way to reinforce the author's arguments. We read, for example, of a countess condemned for her showy dress; a concubinary priest living under the same roof as an adulterous innkeeper; an ignorant cleric only knowing how to read one office; a bad bishop who behaved like a lion and died like a dog; a Parisian arts student who swotted day and night; two women who pulled out a holy man's hair; and a priest fornicating on Christmas Day.Bernard Aubry was the son of the binder Jacques Aubry, and succeeded to the business of his father-in-law Denis Roce. The dating of this edition is based upon the printer's device.No copies traced in the US, and only one in the UK (Bodleian). BP16 103314; USTC 183750. Language: Latin.…

Small in-4°. Title, II-LVII leaves, 1 nn leave. 19th century boards with old manucsript paper . Beautiful post-incunabel of the text by Jacobus van Gruitrode . Printed in 2 columns with woocut initials. Old manuscript notes. Lacking folio I (Prologus ) , added in copy. Else very good .

4to, ff.[i], 57, [1]; gothic letter in two columns, with a woodcut initial at beginning of text; occasional minor marginal dampstaining, wormhole in text sometimes resulting in loss of a letter (sense recoverable), but a very good copy in early nineteenth-century boards, red morocco lettering-piece on spine; slightly rubbed, upper joint cracked but firm; from the library of Robert Crewe-Milnes, first Marquess of Crewe (18581945), with bookplate.Rare edition of this popular late medieval treatise, 'The Bath of Conscience', widely ascribed to the Carthusian monk and prior of Liège, Jacobus de Gruytrode (c.14001475). Essentially a handbook for priests, with a significant devotional element, it was first published between 1487 and 1489. The text, arranged in twenty-one chapters, discusses inter alia sacerdotal ornaments; alms-giving; prayer; the vice of lust; preaching; ecclesiastical benefices and the abuse thereof; and priestly misdemeanours; and ends with an extended devotional section on Christ's Passion. Numerous exempla are supplied along the way to reinforce the author's arguments. We read, for example, of a countess condemned for her showy dress; a concubinary priest living under the same roof as an adulterous innkeeper; an ignorant cleric only knowing how to read one office; a bad bishop who behaved like a lion and died like a dog; a Parisian arts student who swotted day and night; two women who pulled out a holy man's hair; and a priest fornicating on Christmas Day. According to Theodor Petreius's Bibliotheca Cartusiana (Cologne, 1609), the author is in fact Johannes Meskirchius (Messkirch, d.1511), a monk at the charterhouse of Güterstein near Stuttgart. OCLC records only two copies outside Germany (National Library of Sweden and St.Bonaventure University); not found in Library Hub. VD16 J 105. For Messkirch, see R. Deigendesch, 'Bücher und ihre Schenker Die Bücherlisten der Kartause Güterstein in Württemberg' in Bücher, Bibliotheken, und Schriftukultur der Kartäuser: Festgabe zum 65. Geburtstag von Edward Potkowski (2002), pp. 93-115. Language: Latin.…

Mod. Pergament-Einband. -- 100 num. Bl, (5) Seiten. -- Seltenes Handbuch über die Pflichten und Regeln des Priestertums. Äusserst seltene Ausgabe. Laut GW nur 3 Exemplare in öffentlichen Einrichtungen. -- Jacobus de Gruytrode war ein bedeutender Kartäusermönch, Prior und Schriftsteller des 15. Jahrhunderts. Er wurde um 1400/10 in Gruitrode (Belgisch-Limburg) geboren und verstarb am 12. Februar 1475 in Lüttich. Sein Wirken innerhalb des Kartäuserordens war von hoher administrativer Verantwortung geprägt. Nach seinem Eintritt in den Orden (vermutlich 1427) bekleidete er mehrfach das Amt des Priors: zunächst ab 1440 in der Lütticher Kartause, 1445 in Zierikzee und ab 1447 erneut in Lüttich. Im Jahr 1452 wurde er vom Generalkapitel zum Ordensdiffinitor ernannt. Neben seinen Leitungsaufgaben war er im Kloster auch handwerklich als Buchbinder tätig. -- Das Titelblatt trägt die Druckermarke des Pariser Druckers und Buchhändlers Ponset Le Preux (tätig 1498-1559). Der Holzschnitt zeigt seine Initialen ,P.L.P." und ,G.P." (wahrscheinlich für seinen Vater Galliot) in einem Schild, flankiert von heraldischen Greifen und umgeben von Blattwerk. -- Obwohl oft Jacobus de Gruytrode zugeschrieben, identifiziert Theodor Petreius den eigentlichen Autor als Johannes Meskirchius (Johannes von Meßkirch), einen Kartäusermönch aus der Kartause Güterstein (Bibliotheca Cartusiana, Köln 1609, S. 210). Während Petreius ihn fälschlicherweise um 1407 in Güterstein ansiedelte, deuten historische Aufzeichnungen darauf hin, dass er ein Jahrhundert später lebte und am 27. August 1511 verstarb. -- Erste und letzte Seite mit zeitgenössischem handschriftlichem Besitzvermerk. -- Seiten teils etwas wasserfleckig, die ersten 3 Bl. mit hinterlegtem Randeinriss am unteren Außenrand, sonst gut erhalten. Literatur: Pell Ms 6441 (6417); Moreau I 374: 139; Oates 3117; GW 12 Sp.272a. (früher M10713) // Wir, das Antiquariat Steffen Völkel, kaufen und verkaufen alte Bücher, Handschriften, Zeichnungen, Autographen, Grafiken und Fotografien. Wir sind stets am Ankauf von kompletten Bibliotheken, Sammlungen und Nachlässen interessiert. la Gewicht in Gramm: 550. …

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1519 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 144.…