Title: Immortalis Dei In Corpore Mortali Patientis Historia, 1746(?). Brocade Binding
Author: William Stanyhurst
Publisher: Campidonae, Apud Andream Stadler & Josephum Wolff
Condition: Very Good
Stanyhurst’s Story of the immortal God in the suffering mortal body: illustrated by theories and commentaries on moral teaching. An ascetic work on Marian veneration. There is a full-page engraving of Christ bearing the Cross on his way to Cavalry.
This volume has been bound in attractive brocade papers, with shining gilt against flowering designs.
This volume bears the stamp of the dissolved monastery library Franziskaner Kloster Detteibach.
One brocade bound volume, in 12mo, (16)+570+(6)
This volume is in very good shape, with light rubbing and wear to the binding. The inner joints are worms, and the fly leaves lacking. There is minor staining throughout, with heavy staining to the last five leaves to the upper corner, and the text being difficult to read in those spaces.