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A Flemish mystic inspired by St. Francis of Assissi

HARPHIUS, H. (= HENDRIK HERP).
Theologiae mysticae, cum speculativae, tum adfectivae,  quae non tam lectione iuvatur, quam animi puritate, exercitioque obtinetur amoris, Libri tres, nunc denuo studio multo attentiori, quam hactenus unquam ad sua archetypa castigati, plurimisque ad faciliorem intellectum facientibus commodis illustrati.

With woodcut printer's device on title, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion, and several large historiated woodcut initials.

With woodcut printer's device on title, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion, and several large historiated woodcut initials.

With woodcut printer's device on title, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion, and several large historiated woodcut initials.

With woodcut printer's device on title, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion, and several large historiated woodcut initials.



Cologne, Haeredes Arnold Birckmann, 1556. Folio. Contemp. vellum. With woodcut printer's device on title, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion, and several large historiated woodcut initials. (16), 259 lvs.

The great Flemish mystic Hendrik Herp, Latin Harphius, was born in Erp in Brabant in the beginning of the 15th century. He started as a follower of Geert Groote and the movement of the "Modern Devotion", and reached the position of Rector at a monastry of the Brethren of the Common Life at Delft in the Netherlands. Then in 1450, visiting Rome, he entered into the order of the Minorites, and again he became the holder of high office, abbot at Antwerp, and later at Malines, and leader of the Cologne-province of the Order.
Hendrik Herp became especially famous for his Spieghel der Volcomenheit, written in Dutch and translated into all European languages. But all his mystic works became standard devotional reading within the Minorite Order, and were republished all through the 16th and 17th century, although Bossuet disapproved of Herp's all too vived imagination. His Theologia Mystica Hendrik Herp composed while staying at the famous Mount Alverna under the direct inspiration of Saint Francis himself.

Good copy, with old owner's ms. entry on first blank: Thaddeus à Cornu... 1698, and few ms. notes in the margins and on last blank.- (Some waterst., occasionally sl. browned).
De Troeyer 229.

Related Subjects: Devotion  Overijssel  Religion 

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