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In praise of solitude and the monasterical life

MUSIUS, Cornelius.
Solitudo sive vita solitaria laudata.

Title within large ornamental and architectural woodcut border.

Title within large ornamental and architectural woodcut border.



Antwerp, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1566. 4to. Contemporary vellum, remnants of ties. Title within large ornamental and architectural woodcut border. 64 leaves.

Rare collection of poems, hymns and other laudatory texts, collected and mostly written by the Dutch priest and humanist Cornelius Musius or Muys (1503-1572). Musius studied and worked for some time in Belgium and France, but from 1538 till his death he was the director of the Monastery of Franciscan Sisters St. Agathe in Delft. Musius wrote several devotional works. The present work contains several poems in Latin in praise of solitude and the monasterical life. It is the only work by Musius that is printed by the Plantin press.

Good copy.
Voet 1725; Bibl. Belg. M 364.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Devotion  Poetry  Religion 

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