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MOTT, Hermannus, O.F.M.

Manus religiosorum, olim formata, nunc per Verbum Dei, & sancta Sanctorum Patruum, ac magnorum vitae spititualis Magistrorum documenta, de vita cum honeste & religiose, tum sancte & perfecte ducenda, paraphrastice explicata
Cologne
J. Wilhelm Friessem
1669
€160 - €200

8vo, [16]-479-[9] pp, engraved title-page (an allegorical hand). (paper slightly age-toned, edges frayed) Contemporary overl. vellum (soiled, old flyleaf underlaid), flat spine, mod. endpapers, modern stamp on pastedown. Scarce first ed. of a didactic treatise by the Franciscan H. Mott (1624-1704). ""Selon un procédé pédagogique en vogue aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, chacune de ces sentences était mise en relation avec un des doigts de la main."" (Poulenc, Dict. Spirit.) Ref. VD-17 1:072291R (only 2 complete copies). We add: idem. Die Geistliche Hand, Vorlängst also gezeichnet, Hernach aber durch das Wort Gottes...Regensburg, E.F. Bader, 1742. 8vo, engraved frontispiece (allegorical hand). Age-toned, old stamp on title-page. Contemporary calf binding (together: 2 vol.)

Catholic devotion