An appealing early seventeenth-century sammelband, bound in a fragment of printed waste vellum, a leaf from a missal with a portion of the votive Mass for deliverance in the time of pestilence, beginning with the oratio secreta ‘Subveniat nobis, quaesumus, Domine, sacrificii presentis oblatio:…’ and continuing with the communion ‘Multitudo languentium, et qui vexabantur a spiritibus immundis, veniebant ad eum: quia virtus de illo exibat, et sanabat omnes’ from Luke 6 (‘a multitude of sick and those troubled with unclean spirits came to Him; virtue exuded from Him and healed all’).
The first work is Flemish humanist, and Neo-Stoic theorist Justus Lipsius’ (1547-1606) Admonitions, first published in 1605. Popular and much reprinted over the course of the seventeenth century and beyond, it was intended to expand on his much more famous 1589 Politica, ‘instructing those who rule how to govern’ (Lipsius, Politica). The second work is jurist and economist Leonardus Lessius’ SJ (1554-1623) Counter-reformation defence of Catholicism.
Provenance: ‘Ad Bibliotheca franciscanorum Hedingae’, the monastery of Hedingen at Sigmaringen in Baden-Wurttemberg, originally founded as a Dominican convent but by the time of this inscription, and after dissolution as a city hospital in 1624, Franciscan.
Partial removal of pastedowns revealing further text of waste vellum binding, light water staining, minor, scattered worming to first thirty or so leaves.
Imhof, I. L-59; II. L-6. II. Sommervogel IV, col.1731/6 (first edition).
