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[ROSEMONDT, Godschalc]

Confessionale sive Libellus modum confitendi pulcherrime complectens
(Antverpiae
Michael Hillenius Hoochstraten)
1519 (8 July)
€1.800 - €2.400

8vo, 282, [6] ff, title printed in red and black, upper margin cut, old library stamp. Printed in gothic script. Beautiful FLEMISH PANEL-STAMPED CALF, each cover stamped with two panels separated with a roll of 3 dogs and a porcupine, each with a double strip containing 4 animals in foliage and each surrounded by a verse from the Psalms 'De profundis clamaui ad te domine domine exaudi vocem meam'. Rubbed, spine with 3 raised bands, paper label with title on spine, traces of closing ties. The fly leaves are recycled old vellum ms. lvs

"Provenance: Bibl. Prov. Germ. Inferioris (double removed). Ref. BCNI 666 ; Nijhoff & Kronenberg 1821 ; Machiels R-267. Latin version of ""Boexken vander biechten', a confessor's manual. The name of the author is written as a woodcut of a rose printed in red followed by 'mondt'"