{"product_id":"lipsius-justus-monita-et-exempla-politica-antwerp-plantin-9frtc2if","title":"LIPSIUS (Justus). Monita et exempla politica. Antwerp: Jan Moretus, 1606. [bound with:] LESSIUS (Leonardus). Quae fides et religio sit capessenda, consultatio.","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 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 \u003cem\u003eoratio secreta\u003c\/em\u003e ‘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’).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first work is Flemish humanist, and Neo-Stoic theorist Justus Lipsius’ (1547-1606) \u003cem\u003eAdmonitions\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003ePolitica\u003c\/em\u003e, ‘instructing those who rule how to govern’ (Lipsius, \u003cem\u003ePolitica).\u003c\/em\u003e The second work is jurist and economist Leonardus Lessius’ SJ (1554-1623) Counter-reformation defence of Catholicism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: ‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePartial removal of pastedowns revealing further text of waste vellum binding, light water staining, minor, scattered worming to first thirty or so leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImhof, I. L-59; II. L-6. II. Sommervogel IV, col.1731\/6 (first edition).\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48638284529821,"sku":"263205","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/263205_05.jpg?v=1784039112","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/lipsius-justus-monita-et-exempla-politica-antwerp-plantin-9frtc2if","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}