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STERRE, Johannes Chrysostomus van der (1591-1652). Vita S. Norberti canonicorum Praemonstratensium Patriarchae Antverpiae Apostoli Archiepisc. Magdeburg. ac totius Germaniae Primatis. Antwerp: Theodore Galle, [1622].
4° (192 x 145mm). Preface in Latin and explanatory text in French. Engraved title, engraved portrait, and 34 numbered engraved plates by Cornelius Galle. (Upper corner of title repaired just touching plate, light marginal spotting.) Contemporary calf with gilt-tooled arabesque medallion at centre of covers, single gilt fleuron in spine compartments (slightly rubbed with some surface loss at spine, without two fore-edge ties). Provenance: Miss Eyre (19th-century card on front flyleaf); Westbury, monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary (flyleaf inscription); Sotheby's sale 8 March 1955, lot 480, £3.10 to Edwards); Maggs Bros. (letter dated 11 January 1960, offering the book to Foyle, laid in).
A fresh copy of this rare life of St. Norbert (1080-1134), founder of the Premonstratensian Order in 1120, illustrated through 34 fine engravings by C. Galle. In addition to his many ecclesiastical titles, Norbert is the Apostle of Antwerp, owing to his triumph over the heretic Tanchelin and his delivery of the people of that city from those heresies in 1122. The British Library catalogue calls for separately paginated text in Latin, French and Spanish; the present copy has a separately paginated preface in Latin and text keyed to the plates in French. Brunet Table, 21798; Cicognara 1880 (calling for 15 plates only); Funck, Le livre Belge a gravures, p.397;
4° (192 x 145mm). Preface in Latin and explanatory text in French. Engraved title, engraved portrait, and 34 numbered engraved plates by Cornelius Galle. (Upper corner of title repaired just touching plate, light marginal spotting.) Contemporary calf with gilt-tooled arabesque medallion at centre of covers, single gilt fleuron in spine compartments (slightly rubbed with some surface loss at spine, without two fore-edge ties). Provenance: Miss Eyre (19th-century card on front flyleaf); Westbury, monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary (flyleaf inscription); Sotheby's sale 8 March 1955, lot 480, £3.10 to Edwards); Maggs Bros. (letter dated 11 January 1960, offering the book to Foyle, laid in).
A fresh copy of this rare life of St. Norbert (1080-1134), founder of the Premonstratensian Order in 1120, illustrated through 34 fine engravings by C. Galle. In addition to his many ecclesiastical titles, Norbert is the Apostle of Antwerp, owing to his triumph over the heretic Tanchelin and his delivery of the people of that city from those heresies in 1122. The British Library catalogue calls for separately paginated text in Latin, French and Spanish; the present copy has a separately paginated preface in Latin and text keyed to the plates in French. Brunet Table, 21798; Cicognara 1880 (calling for 15 plates only); Funck, Le livre Belge a gravures, p.397;
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