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MAUBURNUS, Johannes (d. 1501). Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium et sacrarum meditationum. [Zwolle: Pieter van Os], 1494.
Chancery 2o (288 x 198mm). Collation: (16 (24 (title, prologue and table); a8 b-o6 p8 (exercises 1-13, -p8 blank); q-x6 (exercises 14-18, x6 blank); A-Z AA-BB6 (exercises 19-38, BB8r colophon, verso blank). Gothic types 8:99 (subtitle and headings), 9:71 (text), 10:64 (glosses). 53-54 lines and headline. Double column. Xylographic 2-line title. Large woodcut on title-page, the upper block from the first illustration in the Netherlandish blockbook Canticum canticorum c. 1465 (Schreiber I); full-page woodcut (mnemotechnical hand) on c1v. Two large initials in blue with floral decoration in various colors extending into the margins, by a contemporary Netherlandish artist, probably monastic; other penwork initials in red, rubricated throughout (paragraph-marks, capital-strokes, underlines). (A few minor marginal wormholes and light stains, lower blank margin of final leaf replaced.) 19th-century sheep over medieval wooden boards, panelled covers and spine with triple fillets (defective in places). Provenance: Cassel, French Flanders, Augustinian Canons (inscriptions, various anonymous members of this House called Nazareth are responsible for contemporary annotations on blank pages) -- purchased from Hamill & Barker, Chicago, 28 October 1987.
FIRST EDITION of the principal devotional work of Jan Mombaer of Brussels, whose ideal of asceticism and contemplation was widely admired among the monastic and lay followers of the Devotio moderna: the Windesheim Congregation and the Brethren of the Common Life. It is even said to have influenced the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. Mombaer left St. Agnietenberg near Zwolle to lead monastic reform among the Augustinians in Fontainebleau and Paris (where he died). He was one of the first to insist that not Jean Gerson but Thomas à Kempis was the author of Imitatio Christi.
The title illustration is the only evidence of survival of any block from the Song of Solomon blockbook. It shows the Bridegroom inviting the Bride and her two maidens into his garden, while monks are harvesting in the background. HC *13995; CA 1224; BMC IX, 88; Arnim 228; Goff M-376.
Chancery 2o (288 x 198mm). Collation: (16 (24 (title, prologue and table); a8 b-o6 p8 (exercises 1-13, -p8 blank); q-x6 (exercises 14-18, x6 blank); A-Z AA-BB6 (exercises 19-38, BB8r colophon, verso blank). Gothic types 8:99 (subtitle and headings), 9:71 (text), 10:64 (glosses). 53-54 lines and headline. Double column. Xylographic 2-line title. Large woodcut on title-page, the upper block from the first illustration in the Netherlandish blockbook Canticum canticorum c. 1465 (Schreiber I); full-page woodcut (mnemotechnical hand) on c1v. Two large initials in blue with floral decoration in various colors extending into the margins, by a contemporary Netherlandish artist, probably monastic; other penwork initials in red, rubricated throughout (paragraph-marks, capital-strokes, underlines). (A few minor marginal wormholes and light stains, lower blank margin of final leaf replaced.) 19th-century sheep over medieval wooden boards, panelled covers and spine with triple fillets (defective in places). Provenance: Cassel, French Flanders, Augustinian Canons (inscriptions, various anonymous members of this House called Nazareth are responsible for contemporary annotations on blank pages) -- purchased from Hamill & Barker, Chicago, 28 October 1987.
FIRST EDITION of the principal devotional work of Jan Mombaer of Brussels, whose ideal of asceticism and contemplation was widely admired among the monastic and lay followers of the Devotio moderna: the Windesheim Congregation and the Brethren of the Common Life. It is even said to have influenced the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. Mombaer left St. Agnietenberg near Zwolle to lead monastic reform among the Augustinians in Fontainebleau and Paris (where he died). He was one of the first to insist that not Jean Gerson but Thomas à Kempis was the author of Imitatio Christi.
The title illustration is the only evidence of survival of any block from the Song of Solomon blockbook. It shows the Bridegroom inviting the Bride and her two maidens into his garden, while monks are harvesting in the background. HC *13995; CA 1224; BMC IX, 88; Arnim 228; Goff M-376.