CASSIANUS, JOANNES. Monasticarum Institutionum libri IIII. De Capitalibus vitiis libri VIII. Collationes SS....

CASSIANUS, JOANNES. Monasticarum Institutionum libri IIII. De Capitalibus vitiis libri VIII. Collationes SS. Patrum XXIIII. De Verbi Incarnatione libri VII. Edited by Hendrik van Cuyck. 606, [2]; 275, [45] pages, including blanks p8 and 2V8. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 165x105 mm, contemporary pigskin over pasteboard blind-tooled to panel design formed by historiated and ornamental rolls, spine darkened and worn; contents toned with light dampstaining in upper margins, front free endpaper lacking. Posthumous armorial bookplate of the Ingoldstadt theologian Albert Hunger (1545-1604) dated 1604 on front pastedown; ownership inscription of Pastor August Höschl dated 1821 on rear pastedown; conspicuous stamp of Saint Gregory's University on top, fore, and bottom edges, pastedowns, and title. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1578

Estimate $300 - 500

first plantin edition of the collected writings of Cassianus (circa 360-435), whose works on monastic life influenced later Western monastic rules. Voet 927.

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