6 parts in 1 vol. in-folio (30 x 20,5 cm), [66], [196], 50 ff, Latin text entirely printed in gothic script, with 5 large and 33 small (repeated) woodcut, with portraits of popes and bishops. The illustrations have been attributed to Urs Graf. The text is entirely rubricated in red and blue and with 12 beautiful illuminated and gold-heightened initials. Small wormholes in the beginning and at the end. Repertorium bound at front. Old calf binding over wooden boards, some scratches, hinges broken, restorations and stains, red edges
Ref. VD16 G 4071 ; Adams G 1559 ; Machiels G 584 ; Brunet II, 1813. Modern bookplate Udo Esch. The Carthusian Order, founded by St. Bruno of Cologne around 1084 and celebrated for the purity and austerity of its version of the religious life, is characterized by a unique combination of the eremetical and cenobitic life. FIRST EDITION with fine illustrations by Urs Graf (ca. 1485-1528). The first full-page woodcut illustrations is made up of 9 small cuts on one page illustrating the foundation of the Order "Origo Ordinis Oartusiensis." A genealogical tree (A1v) showing the descent of the chief figures of the order from St. Bruno, is surrounded by 17 small woodcuts of Popes. Printed at the expense of the Carthusian monastery of St. John the Baptist in Freiburg im Breisgau,
