Author: TAULER Jean ( 1300 ? - 1361) - Antoine ESTIENNE ( translator ) :
Title: Les Institutions divines et salutaires enseignemens du R.P.F. Jean Thaulere...où il est enseigné comme on peut facilement parvenir à la parfaicte union de l'amour de Dieu par le moyen des sainctes vertus et bons exercices spirituels. Avec la vie et epistres dudict autheur...le tout nouvellement traduict de latin en françois par les Pères minimes de l'oratoire Nostre-Dame de Vie-saine.
Description: .: 11. Arras, chez Gilles Bauduyn marchant libraire à l'enseigne du Missel d'or. 1596. (in colophon ; a Arras de l'imprimerie de Guillaume de la Rivière 1595). In-8°, 15 x 9,5 cm, engraved frontispiece ( Mary with a burning heart)*** + title printed in red and black + (14)nn pp + 423 pp + (1)(colophon) (complete) , bound in somewhat later full vellum, vellum painted black, edges painted red. (black colour a bit worn off). Small library stamp on title. Still a very fine copy. Rare edition of a french provincial press. The first edition in French of this text was published in Paris in 1587. It carried a preface letter by Father Antoine Estienne. In this Arras edition this preface has been replaced by a letter of the bookdealer. The French translation was based on the 1548 paraphrased Latin edition by Laurentius Surius published in Cologne ( according the Catholic Encyclopedia). Our edition also has the '' Apologia pro Thaulero'' by Louis de Blois. USTC 19372 ; Pettegree-Walsby 28904. *** This portrait may be an old addition to the book.. .

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