Author: DORLANDUS Petrus - [ ] Raymundus de SABUNDE - Mattaeus HERBENUS :
Title: Viola animae p[er] modum dyalogi: inter Raymundu[m] Sebundiu[m]...et dominu[m] Dominicu[m] seminiuerbium. De hominis natura (p[ro]pter quem om[n]ia facta sunt tractans. Ad cognoscendu[m] se. deum. et ho[m]i[n]em.
Description: .: Colonie ( Köln ), [Retro Minores for] Henrici Quentell, 29.V.1499, in-4°, (208 x 145 mm ), 104 unnumbered leaves, one illustration. Printed in Gothic type, 36 lines and head line to the page, rubricated throughout. The woodcut illustration on the last page represents the child Jezus amid the Virgin, St. Anne, John the Baptist, john the Evangelist; with contemporary colouring. Bound in a 19th c. bradel binding. The boards are covered with a vellum sheat taken from a 15th c. manuscript. Very nice complete copy. No provenance. This copy was listed by Gilhofer und Ranschburg ( Vienna ) in cat. 100 (1912 ) as lot 223 . First edition of these mystical dialogues on the nature and salvation of man, collected by the Dutch Carthusian friar Petrus Dorlandus (1454-1507) from Diest in Brabant, to whom the authorship of the famous Dutch play Elckerlyc has sometimes been attributed. The present work consists of seven dialogues, six of which are inspired by the 'Theologia Naturalis' of the Spanish mystical philosopher Raymundus de Sabunde (died 1432). The seventh dialogue is entitled 'Dialogus inter Marian et Dominicum de mysteriis passioninis Christi' and appears to be an original work of Dorlandus. Contains four neolatin epigrams, on verso of title: one by Mattaeus Herbenus, rector of the S. Sevatius school in Maastricht and musical theorist (cf. Eitner V, 115). A few contemporary marginal annotations including a small drawing in red of a ladder. Attractive, large paper copy of this interesting work Ref. Hain-Cop. 14070. GKW 9046. BMC I 290. GOFF D-360. Pollain 1349 (Plantin-Moretus and an incomplete copy in Louvain U.L.). .

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