(MARTIN (LINIUS) VON COCHEM, O.Cap.). - Der mittlere Baumgarten im mittlern Druck: Darinn ... Morgen- Abend- Mess- Vesper- Beicht- und Communiongebether, wie auch zu dem ... Sakrament des Altars, und der allerheiligsten Dreyfaltigkeit ....

c. 1710 With woodcut frontispiece showing Christ appearing in a tree. (11) leaves, 350 pp., (4) leaves. 8vo. Contemp. vellum, painted blue and green in a panel design with some gilt stamping, spine with 2 green compartments, edges gauffered (color rubbed off slightly). Glatz, Franz Pompejus, (c. 1710). Unrecorded prayer book from Silesia, in a typical peasant binding of the period. It is one of a series of prayer books by the Capuchin Martin von Cochem's (1634-1712), ".. a born poet .. the most popular folk author of his time" (Faber du Faur). Most of his works went through numerous editions; about half of them were works of devotion, the others were legends and moralistic tales which found their way into later collections of "Volksbücher". The present copy is bound in a charming rustic binding. - Old ms. ownership entry on front pastedown, small wormtrack in upper outer corner of last few leaves, slightly browned. - Not in Gesamtverzeichnis; nor Faber du Faur or Seebass. RELIGION / THEOLOGY ; BINDINGS ;

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