Title: Magnum Speculum Exemplorum, ex plusquam octoginta auctoribus, pietate, doctrina, et antiquitate venerandis, variisque historiis, tractatibus & libellis excerptum, ab Anonymo quodam, qui circiter annum Domini 1480. vixisse deprehenditur, 1684. In a Contemporary and Extravagant Gilt Embossed Leather Binding
Author: Jean Major; Aegdius Faber
Publisher: Coloniae Agrippinae, typis & sumptibus Joannis Wilhelmi Friessem
Condition: Very Good
An uncommon late 17th century edition of Major’s Large Mirror of Examples, taken from more than eighty authors, respected in piety, learning, and antiquity, and various histories, treatises, and pamphlets, by a certain Anonymous, who is found to have lived about the year of the Lord 1480. The “Exempla” is a a collection of divine miracles, punishments, revelations, etc. attributed to Aegdius Faber, here in the adaptation of the Jesuit Jean Major in the later Cologne edition of 1684. There is a large and detailed manuscript dedication by one Franciscus Hauk SI from 1698 on the front page.
This volume has been bound in contemporary leather, beautifully embossed and decorated with gilt, with flowering designs to the covers.
The top and bottom of the fore-edges are gauffered.
Worldcat records 21 existing copies of this edition in libraries.
One finely bound volume in quarto, (8)+683+(34) pages
This volume is in very good shape, with some rubbing and wear to the binding. There is some foxing and scattered staining throughout.