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From the monastery of the Fratres Minores at Fritzlar

[MODERN DEVOTION].
Quattuor novissima cum multis exemplis pulcherrimis & de terroribus mortis cum eterne beatitudis gloria.

Full-page woodcut on title with the symbols of the four evangelists.

Full-page woodcut on title with the symbols of the four evangelists.

Full-page woodcut on title with the symbols of the four evangelists.



Deventer, Jac. de Breda, 1502, 5 Nov. 4to. 19th century calf. Full-page woodcut on title with the symbols of the four evangelists. (47, 1 blank) lvs.

Rare Deventer post-incunable of a devotional book on the four extremes, quattuor novissima, which are: death, the last judgment, hell, andheaven. The work played a crucial role in te Dutch Modern Devotion and was ascribed to Gerardus de Vliederhoven, and to  Dionysius Carthusianus, but also, unfounded, to Geert Groote.

Good copy, with ms. notes, dated 1598-1600, and 17th or 18th-century ownership's entry on the title: "Conventus Frideslariensis Fratrum minorum S. Francisci in conventualium (= monastery of the fratres minores at Fritzlar); underneath the woodcut the names of the evangelists are repeated. On verso of the title, a late sixteenth-century ownership's entry: "Johannes Teuffel tem ist tas buch ... (and the Latin form:) Johannes Diabolus ...". Several margins and the last fly-leaf contain annotations in the same hand, dated 1598-1600, recording purchases (of a table f.e.) and sales, and on Johannes Ludovicus owing him several amounts of money.- (Tear in title; sl. stained).
Nijhoff-Kronenberg 1605; Adams C 2620; Van Huisstede & Brandhorst 1380; not in STC Dutch.


Related Subjects: 16th Century  Post Incunabula  Religion 

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