Lot 680
Ludolf von Sachsen, Vita Jesu Christi. Lyon 1522.
Estimate
€ 600
Starting Price
€ 400
Lot:
680
Category:
Old prints up to 1600
Artist:
Ludolf von Sachsen
Ludolf von Sachsen: Vita Jesu Christi rede(m)ptoris nostri ex secundissimis eva(n)geliorum sententiis et approbatis ab ecclesia doctoribus excerpta. Lyon: Huyon für Giunta 12. April 1522. 19,8 x 14 cm. With a woodcut title page, framed by a figurative border, 1 original headpiece, an original printer’s mark at the end and numerous original initials. 11 leaves, 412 Roman-numbered, 3 unnumbered leaves. Gothic type. Two-column layout. Title page in black and red. Blind-stamped leather with four remnants of fastenings. Endpapers from a liturgical manuscript on parchment.
(Scuffed, bumped, worm-eaten, stained; spine covering with missing sections; joints broken; fastenings lost. Endpapers worm-eaten. The first quire has come loose from the binding. Title page bears a handwritten ownership note and a water stain on the lower edge. Damp stains throughout, with large water stains in places. A few leaves have paper defects such as small tears or torn corners. The book block is slightly under-trimmed. Browned and with occasional finger stains.)
This edition not in STC, EDIT16 und bei Adams. Cmp. Baudrier VI, p. 139 (Ausgabe 1530). - A rare Lyon edition of the devotional work by the Carthusian monk Ludolf of Saxony (c. 1300–1377). The ‘Vita Christi’ was probably written between 1348 and 1368 in Mainz. Even during Ludolf’s lifetime, the work was known beyond the Carthusian Order, and by the early 15th century it was already present in most monastic libraries, as the manuscript tradition attests. It was first printed in 1472 in Paris and Cologne. Ludolf combines a continuous meditation on the life of Jesus with interpretations of the Gospels and numerous quotations from ecclesiastical authorities in a way that earned him a reputation as one of the most significant exponents of Christological reflection in the late Middle Ages. At the same time, his work is regarded as one of the most important sources for Ignatius of Loyola’s *Spiritual Exercises* and thus as a key catalyst for the development of the history of piety in the 15th and 16th centuries.
(Scuffed, bumped, worm-eaten, stained; spine covering with missing sections; joints broken; fastenings lost. Endpapers worm-eaten. The first quire has come loose from the binding. Title page bears a handwritten ownership note and a water stain on the lower edge. Damp stains throughout, with large water stains in places. A few leaves have paper defects such as small tears or torn corners. The book block is slightly under-trimmed. Browned and with occasional finger stains.)
This edition not in STC, EDIT16 und bei Adams. Cmp. Baudrier VI, p. 139 (Ausgabe 1530). - A rare Lyon edition of the devotional work by the Carthusian monk Ludolf of Saxony (c. 1300–1377). The ‘Vita Christi’ was probably written between 1348 and 1368 in Mainz. Even during Ludolf’s lifetime, the work was known beyond the Carthusian Order, and by the early 15th century it was already present in most monastic libraries, as the manuscript tradition attests. It was first printed in 1472 in Paris and Cologne. Ludolf combines a continuous meditation on the life of Jesus with interpretations of the Gospels and numerous quotations from ecclesiastical authorities in a way that earned him a reputation as one of the most significant exponents of Christological reflection in the late Middle Ages. At the same time, his work is regarded as one of the most important sources for Ignatius of Loyola’s *Spiritual Exercises* and thus as a key catalyst for the development of the history of piety in the 15th and 16th centuries.