D. Dionysii Carthusiani, De his quae secundum sacras scripturas & orthodoxo[rum] patrum sententias, de sanctissima & indiuidua trinitate semper adoranda, catholice credantur, liber primus[-quartus & Indices] :. Non opus est bonæ merci precone: & tamen ex tam multis in Sententias scriptis, si quod lectu dignu[m] est, ut certe plurima sunt, hoc præsens opus uel maxime dignum erit. Est e[ni]m tale, ut qui ipsum bene norit, cæteroru[m] omnium catholicorum scriptorum medullam norit & fidei Christianæ summam. Et huius rei iudiciu[m] penes lectorem pium & eruditum esto. nam animalis homo no[n] percipit ea quæ spiritus dei sunt. stultitia est enim illi..
Denis the Carthusian (1402 - 1471)
Category
Books
Date
Unknown
Materials
Place of origin
Cologne
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3182463
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 pts ([20], 670, [2]; [20], 111[i.e. 611], [1]; [16], 351, [1]; 180, [52] p.; [24], 608, [2]p.; :. ill. ;. fol. Bound in four volumes. Vol. 3 has pencil "16" on titlepage. Provenance: inscribed "Hannibal Gamon Tandem D.O.M." [i.e. Hannibal Gamon, Rector of St. Mawgan, (1582?-1651)]. Also manuscript notes on titlepages giving dates of Dionysius; underlining and marginal notes. Binding: vol. 1, 2 sixteenth-century roll binding, rebacked and much repaired, remnants of clasps; vol. 3 plain calf, rebacked; gold-rolled on board edges; final volume half calf; cloth over boards. Foredge title on D.11.14.
Makers and roles
Denis the Carthusian (1402 - 1471) Dirk Loër (c.1495-1554) Peter Quentel (d.1546) Jaspar von Gennep (1500-1564) Eucharius Cervicornus (fl. 1516-1547)