553Ji. Gérard de Vliederhoven & 553Jii Guido de Monte Rochen.
553Ji. Gérard de Vliederhoven
Cordiale quattuor novissimorum. (Memorare nouissima tua.)
Köln, Konrad Winters, de Homborch, about 1482. Price $8,000
Quarto 22 x15 ½ cm. signatures : a–f⁸g-h⁶ i⁸ [68 leaves] Two works bound in one. I) Heavily browned, some old annotations. Annotation, monastic ownership inscription and stamp to first blank. from the Bibliothek des franziskanerkloster Engelberg II) Browned, slight worming to last leaves. Annotations to first leaf, monastic stamp to title and last leaf. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blindstamped in Koberger /Nnuremberg, See Kryss 1956 Blumenstock , tafl 235 #’s 3 & 2
Rubbed, some worming, tear to spine, head of spine repaired, with expert rebacking preserving original spine, lacking clasp.
Gerard Vliederhoven, confessor and curator of the Commandery Teutonic of Utrecht, was an active mystical writer at the turn of XIV and XVth centuries. With his colleague Johann van der Sande, brother cellar, he showed constant loyalty to Commander Gerhard Splinter Uten Enghe, when from 1380 the latter tried to restore discipline within the Order . We do not know anything about the origins and life of Gérard, although like Denys the Carthusian , he is one of the main representatives of edifying literature of his century. His treatise Quartet novissima examines the four terms of Christian life, namely Death, Judgment of souls, Hell and Heaven. Very widely distributed from the beginning of the 15th century under the title of Cordiale quattuor novissimorum or, more briefly, the Cordiale , it shows how the attention paid to these four terms allows the faithful to guard against sins.
This work has had a profound influence on the eschatological thought of the followers of the Devotio moderna. Several monasteries instituted the common reading of the Cordiale and we know from the chronicler Jean Busch that it was read at the abbey of Windesheim during meals. Jean Miélot translated it into French under the title Les quattres things derrenieres .
- Goff C888; [ United States one copy located, Bryn Mawr College] ; Cop. 1772; GW 7478; BMC I, 249; Voulliéme, Köln 452.
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Bound with 553Jii Guido de Monte Rochen.
Manipulus curatorum. (Manipulus curatoꝛū. officia ſacerdotu ſcdʾm oꝛdinē ſeptē ſacramētoꝝ perbꝛeuiter ?plectēs.)
Straßburg, Martin Flach 10. Mai, 1487.
Signatures . a–o⁸p¹⁰ 121 leaves, Bound with the above. Guido de Monte Rochen or Guy de Montrocher was a Spanish priest and jurist who was active around 1331. He is best known as the author of Manipulus curatorum (the manual of the curate), this is a handbook for parish priests, probably first written in the first half of the fourteenth century it was often copied, with some 180 complete or partial manuscripts surviving, and later reprinted throughout Europe in the next 200 years.
First printed in 1473, with at least 119 printings, and sales which have been estimated to be three times those of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica.(Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late Medieval and Reformation History …edited by Robert James Bast, Andrew Colin Gow, Heiko Augustinus Oberman) It became obsolete only when the Council of Trent created the Roman Catechism in 1566.
On the Verso of the first blank and verso of the last leaf of the Cordiale(553Ji.) leaf a1 and leaf i8v there are a lot of very nice (and easily visible ) impressions of un inked large capitals used for bearer type.
–II. Goff G593.; Hain-C.-R. 8194; GW 11815; BMC I, 147; Katharine Lualdi & Anne Thayer (2007) Guido de Monte Rochen’s Manipulus Curatorum, Medieval Sermon Studies, 51:1, 80, DOI: 10.1179/136606907X216995
https://data.cerl.org/istc/ig00593000
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Stanford CA, Stanford University, Green Library
University Park PA, Pennsylvania State University, Eberly FamilyLibrary
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