Various authors

A COLLECTION OF BAROQUE CATHOLIC DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE (7 PCS)

Germany, 1605-1690
Hieronymo Llamas: Svmma ecclesiastica, siue instrvctio confessariorvm & poenitentivm absolutissima. Format 12°, 16.8x10 cm. 793 numbered pp., in Latin. Soft paper binding (modern). Published by Arnold Mylius Birckmann, printed by Balthasar Lippius in Mainz, 1605. Bartolomeo Cambi (religious name Bartholomaeus Salutius, 1558-1617): Lux Animae Ad perfectionem anhelantis. Format 16°, 13.1x7.6 cm. 446 numbered pp., in Latin. Copper-engraved title page (a strip 1.7 cm wide trimmed off at the bottom). Solid leather binding. Published by Johannes Cruth in Cologne in 1613. Lower right corner of pp. 443/444 torn off. Petrus Canisius: Summa Doctrinae Christianae Per Quaestiones luculenter conscripta. Format 16°, 12.3x7.5 cm. 287 numbered pp., in Latin. Soft paper binding (modern). Printed by Elisabeth Angermar in Ingolstadt, 1621. Michel Cuvelier (1600-1651): Annona spiritualis siue meditationes quibus per annum anima quotidie perficitur iuxta viam purgatiuam, illuminatiuam, unitiuam. Format 16°, 10.4x5.4 cm. 643 numbered pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece plus a full-page illustration. Solid leather binding, clasps surviving only in fragmentary form. Printed by Johann Kinckius in Cologne, 1646. Jacob Masen (1606-1681): Meditata Concordia Protestantium cum Catholicis in una confessione fidei... Format 12°, 17.2x9.7 cm. Part 1: 125 pp., part 2: 149 pp., part 3: 359 pp., Conclusio: 175 numbered pp., in Latin. Solid leather binding. Printed by Johannes Busaeus in Cologne, 1662-1665. Michel Vivien: Tertullianus Praedicans, Et Supra Quamlibet Materiam... Tomus Quartus. Format 4°, 20.7x16.5 cm. 664 numbered pp., in Latin. Copper-engraved frontispiece signed by the engraver Jan Goossens. Solid leather binding. Printed by Johann Wilhelm Friessem in Cologne, 1681. Lower right corner of the title page trimmed off, together with part of an ownership inscription. Pp. 89-96 missing. Bernardo Finetii: Meditationes et recollectiones animae, per decendialia exercitia Deo suo vacaturae. Format 12°, 15.5x9.2 cm. 512 numbered pp., in Latin (translated by Augustinus Erath). Title page printed in black. Copper-engraved frontispiece. Solid half-leather binding. Printed by Vavřinec Kroninger and the heirs of Theophil Göbel in Augsburg, 1690. This selected collection brings together practical manuals for priestly ministry, catechesis and theology, along with books intended for personal, inward meditation.