Desertum Pharan mystice explicatum, cum quadraginta duabus in eo mansionibus filiorum Isràél ad Palaestinam pergentium: …

HERMANN, Amand.

Published by printed by the college of the Society of Jesus,, Kalisz,, 1685

About this Item

Very rare first edition, in Latin, of a work on the Desert of Paran and the 42 "stations" visited by the Israelites following their Exodus from Egypt. Each chapter gives a theological description of one of these stations of the Exodus. Paran is a biblical site where the Israelites spent most of their 40 years of wandering, and is associated with the Sinai Peninsula. The book was written by the Silesian Franciscan theologian Amand Hermann (d. 1700) and printed in Poland by the printing office of the Jesuit College in Kalisz.With inscriptions dated 1698. Foxed throughout, but otherwise in good condition.l Jochera 5908; KVK/WorldCat (3 copies); for the author: ADB XII, p. 165; the map not in Laor; Nebenzahl; Vilnay. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes, laced through the joints, with manuscript title on spine. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Tscherning after Antonín Martin Lublinský, dated 1685, showing a map of the Holy Land (north to the left) with the Desert of Paran to the south, located on the Sinai Peninsula, also showing the Dead Sea and river Jordan, the northern tip of the Red Sea, and the route of the Exodus with the 42 stations numbered. Pages: [32], 505, [1 blank], [16] pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Desertum Pharan mystice explicatum, cum quadraginta duabus in eo mansionibus filiorum Isràél ad Palaestinam pergentium: …
• Publisher: printed by the college of the Society of Jesus,, Kalisz,
• Publication Date: 1685
• Edition: 1st Edition