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Cordiale quattuor novissimorum (with 'Exempla')

Deventer
Richardus Pafraet
1494, 16 Dec.

€2.000 - €3.000

4to, [54] ff, 37 lines, gothic script. No rubrication, top margin of a.2 cut away with no loss of text, occasional light spotting. Nineteenth century half leather binding (upper end of spine worn)

This popular devotional book about 'The Four Last Things' (Death, Judgment Day, Heaven and Hell) appeared in numerous editions and translations during the 15th century. The author is unknown; it is sometimes attributed to Gerardus de Vliederhoven, Henricus de Hassia, or Dionysius Cartusianus. Fourth and last edition by Pafraet in Deventer, all very scarce.
Ref. Goff C899; HC 5708*; BMC IX 56; GW 7512; Cocxk-Indestege, Classica et humanistica, in Gulden Passer (2003), nr. 52 (this copy).

Provenance:
old stamp F. Fasting Rio de Janeiro, sold by Sotheby's in 1979, Antiq. Marechal Brugge (1980)

Incunabula Catholic devotion