Author: Bosendorf, Hermann (ps.: Bernardus Dörhoff)
Title: Speculum iuventutis, sive insigniores pueritiae atque adolescentiae sanctorum, in quibus archetypa virtutum exemplaria, & nobiliora eorundem certamina, quibus de vitiis, mundo, carne, ac daemone triumpharunt, commemorantur. Ad formandos studiosae juventutis mores, & amorem virtutis suscitandum, hortatu RR.PP. Societatis Jesu, collectae a Bernardo Dörhoff cum permissu superiorum & privilegio etc.
Description: Monasterii Westphalorum (Münster), typis Lamberti Rassfeldii, 1615. (24 preface and short alphabetical index), 505, (16 index nominum and index virtutum) pp. Contemporary vellum over boards with raised bands. 8vo. 15x9 cm. Text in latin. Some decorated initials; woodcut printers mark on title-page verso. Good copy. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : good. Very good copy of a rare 17th century devotional work. It contains short biographies of saintly children or of those who have led a saintly youth. They are collected for moral and religious education and arranged according to feastdays of the religious calender. Hermann Bosendorf (1566-1623), who used various pseudonyms (a.o. pistorius), was doctor in Theology, Jesuit (since 1588) and headmaster of the Provincial college in Münster (Germany). Vellum soiled and & wharped; endpaper and title-page loose with small hole affecting one letter; occasional marginal worming without touching the text; shelf-mark inside front cover. Otherwise internally very good, solid and clean. VD17 12:118862V.

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