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JEAN CHRYSOSTOME.- Van die Beweechnisse des herten tot berouwe der sonde[n]. Met meer ander gulden tractaetke[n]s des alder heylichsten Joannis Chrysostomi. Overgheset uit den Latine in duytsche doer eenen religiosen der Regulier orden sa[n]cti...

Estimation : 3000 / 4000
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
Augustini.
Gheprent Thantwerpe[n], [ Antwerpen], Symon Cock, ( 1546).
In-8° : [132, last blank] lvs. Contemporary binding over wooden boards : dark calf, boards with blindstamped panels figuring 2 portrait medaillons within frames of lines and ornamental roll-stamps, ribbed spine (slightly used and rubbed, panels somewhat worn, joints partly split, 1 clasp renewed, 1 missing).
FIRST AN ONLY EDITION of this VERY RARE devotional work in vernacular based on the writings of Joannes Chrysostomos (c. 349-407), archbishop of Constantinople and an important Church Father and preacher.
Translation in Flemish by Antonius van Hemert (1st half of the 16th Cent.), augustine canon of Windesheim at Marienhage near Eindhoven.
Title printed in red and black, neat typography with engraved wooden initials.
# BT 1627; # Lourdaux & Persoons 20; # not in Machiels, STC Dutch nor Adams; # NNBW VIII-520.
Interesting, strictly contemporary panel-stamped binding with 2 portrait medaillons, one of a bearded man looking right, one of a woman (?) looking left, unrecorded but in the style of other specimen of Antwerp bindings (cf. Blind bestempeld en rijk verguld. Boekbanden uit zes eeuwen in het Museum Plantin-Moretus. [Exhibition cat.]. Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretis, 2005, pp. 95-96; Boekbanden uit vijf eeuwen. [Exhibition cat.]. Gent, Rijksuniversiteit, 1961, 178, 180).
Provenance : J. Moerman, 1915 (ms annot.); "suster Cornelya van Gent" (idem).
Édition originale et unique de ce livre de dévotion basé sur Jean Chrysostome, traduit par un chanoine augustin de la Congrégation de Windesheim. Rel. de l'époque plein veau, plats ornés d'une plaque à 2 portraits en médaillon estampée à froid (us., frottée, mors partiel. fendu, 1 fermoir à cordon manquant).
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