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Unrecorded title edition from Mons

BEAUXAMIS, Thomas.
In sacro sancta coenae mysteria, passionem, et resurrectionem domini nostri Jesu, homeliae, & tabulae, annexis quibusdam scholiis, ex primis ecclesiae patribus. Ad amplissimum, & illustrissimum principem carolum cardinalem Lotharingum.

With woodcut printer's device on title and several fine woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.

With woodcut printer's device on title and several fine woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.

With woodcut printer's device on title and several fine woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.



Mons, Apud Claudium Bronchinium, 1570. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title lettered in ink on spine, remains of ties on covers. With woodcut printer's device on title and several fine woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (6), 321, (1) lvs.

Extremely rare collection of sermons on the Last Supper, the Passion and the Resurrection of Christ, by the famous French theologian and polemist Thomas Beauxamis (1524-1589). The dedication to Louis, cardinal of Lorrain is dated Januari 1 1570. The first edition appeared in the same year in Paris, printed by Guillaume Chaudière. Re-editions were published at Antwerp in 1571 and 1573. As our copy has the same collation as the Parisian 1570 edition and the title page is a cancel, it probably is an unrecorded edition under a new title of the editio princeps.
Beauxamis was born in Melun, where he went to the Carmelite monastery. He studied philosophy and theology and became Doctor of Theology in 1567. At the congregation of Albi he was vicor-general for three years, and he became prior of the Carmelite covents of Melun and Paris at about the same time. Not only was he the preacher of the regent, Catharina de Medici, and kings Charles IX and Henry III, but also the counsellor and ambassador of the latter at different occasions. His words and writings should have been quite disturbing to heretics at the time. Beauxamis became priest of Saint-Paul's at Paris, but was dismissed because he wanted to prevent the burial of Maugiron and other protégés of Henry III in his church.
According to Cosme de Villiers, Anshelmus Steckelius made use of this book for his Prectationes, meditationes in singulas uniuscujusque hebdomadae dies divisiae and his Enchiridion quadragesimale precationum diarium, both published at Munich in 1585. Beauxamis left us many writings, the present work being one of his most famous works.

Good copy.
Adams I, B419 (only the Parisian edition of the same year); Belgica typographica 275 (only an edition printed at Antwerp in 1573); not in Bibliotheca Belgica; not in Rousselle, Bibliographic Montoise, in which Moins printing and publishing starts in 1580!!!; not in STC, Dutch nor French; not in NUC; only the Parisian edition of 1570 in BNF; not in OCLC or BL.

Related Subjects: Belgicana  Religion  Sermons 

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