Author: STAPLETON Thomas ( 1535 - 1598 ) - Hermannus SARCERIUS Prior Tongerloënsis ( provenance ) :
Title: Promptuarium Catholicum, Ad instructionum Concionatorum contra haereticos nostri temporis , Super Omnia Evangelia Totius Anni Tam Dominicalia, Quam De Festis....(with) Promptuarii Catholici super Evangelia de Festis Sanctorum totius Anni . Pars Secunda. (with) Promptuarium Catholicum...super Evangelia Feralia per totam Quadragesimam. In hac parte Quadragesimali...( two works in one binding, the first title consists of 2 parts).
Description: .: 11. Coloniae Agrippinae ( Köln ) , In Officina Birckmannica , sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, 1602, in-8°, 16,5 x 10 cm, (28) nn pp + (2)(bl) + 325 pp + (3)(bl) (= first part) ; 321 pp + (11) nn pp (index) + (2)(bl) (= second part) ; (16)nn pp + 340 pp + (10)nn pp (index) + (2)(bl) (= second title). Complete. Bound in contemporary overlapping vellum with traces of ties, manuscipt title on spine, binding soiled and with some stains, interior slightly browned at some pages, corner of leaf S2 in first part missing ( no loss of text), small paper loss at leaf M1 of the second work (with loss of 3 or 4 words), still a good copy with an interesting provenance. On the first fly leaf a dated holograph ex libris from Fr. Hermannus Sarcerius (Prior of Tongerloo Abbey) Anno 1604 , ...Sana Consiutia arx aerea . Underneath a similar ex-libris ( partly illegible) fr. Egidius vanden Bossche (?) 1630...(further) nunc frater Ludolphus Mangelschots Cantor in Tongerlo (undated). (VD17 12;194787Z and VD17 12; 194781D). .

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