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Gerardus de Zutphania, De spiritualibus ascensionibus, Lübeck, 1490, contemporary stamped calf

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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December 12, 01:14 PM GMT

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3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Gerardus de Zutphania


De spiritualibus ascensionibus. David de Augusta: De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione Lib. II, 1 (De quatuor in quibus incipientes deo servire debent esse cauti) [with additional works]. Lübeck: [The Poppy Printer (Hans van Ghetelen)], 1490


8vo (143 x 100mm.), 304 leaves, a-z [et] [con] [rum] A-N8, 19 lines, gothic type, one initial supplied in red, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (presumably made in Hildesheim), holes from two pairs of ties, title-page slightly soiled, other minor marginal staining,rebacked with new endpapers


The Poppy Printer in Lübeck, active from 1487, mostly produced devotional texts in Low German, although this devotional text is in Latin. The fourteenth-century author, Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen, was a Brother of the Common Life and this work of his on spiritual theology is accompanied by similar works by David of Augsburg, Bernard of Clairvaux, Anselm, Augustine, Bonaventure and Pierre d'Ailly.


LITERATURE:

ISTC ig00177500


PROVENANCE:

Ad usum Andreae Overbeck, early inscription at head of a1; Monastery of St Godehard, Hildesheim, inscription at foot of title-page and beneath colophon; Ampleforth Abbey library, bookplates and ink stamp

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