Sinte Augustinus Vierighe Meditatien ofte aen-dachten : en[de] Alleen-spraecken der Zielen tot Godt : ende ooc dat Handt-boecxken vander aen-schouwinghe Christi : item noch Sinte Bernardus devoote aendachten : en[de] een Boecxken van S. Ancelmus, ghenaemt: De Strale der Goddelijcker Liefden, met sommighe van sijne Ghebeden / nu van nieus verbetert nae't Latijnsch exemplaer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430, attributed name.

Ekbert, ǂc Abbot of Schönau, -1184, author.

Contributor:

Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109, attributed name.

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153, attributed name.

Hemert, Anthonis van, -approximately 1560, translator.

Bredan, Daniel, active 1630-1635, translator.

Paets, Pieter Jacobsz, 1587-1657, printer.

Sichem, Christoffel van, approximately 1580-1658, illustrator.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Language:

Dutch

Latin

Subjects (All):

Meditations--Early works to 1800.

Meditations.

Spiritual life--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800.

Spiritual life.

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Hayhurst, Robert J., 1929-2016 (bookplate) (Lea Library copy)

Covent van Sinte Pauwel (former owner) (inscription) (Lea Library copy)

Physical Description:

228, 179, [1], 86, 90, 60, [4] pages : illustrations ; 11 cm (24mo)

Other Title:

Sinte Avgvstinvs Vierighe Meditatien ofte aen-dachten

Vierighe Meditatien ofte aen-dachten

Fingerprint:

s.l. t-g- myn, teso (3) 1631 (A)

Place of Publication:

Eerst t'Hantwerpen : By Symon Cock ... ; [Amsterdam] : Ende nu her-druckt, By P.I. Paedts, 1631.

Notes:

"Paets's Vierighe meditatien etc. is a small meditation book consisting of Dutch translations of five patristic texts. The volume opens with the pseudo-Augustinian tracts Meditationes, Soliloquia, and Manuale under the titles Vierighe meditatien ('Devout meditations'), De Alleenspraeckender Zielen tot Godt ('The soul's soliloquy to God'), and Handt-Boecxken vander aen-schouwinghe Christi ('Handbook on the contemplation of Christ'). The anthology also consists of Devoote aendachten ('Devotional Meditations') and De Strale der Goddelijcker Liefden ('The beam of godly love'), attributed to Bernard and Anselm respectively. In fact, Bernard and Anselm did not write these tracts. The Meditationes devotissimae ad humanae conditionis cognitionem (Devoote aendachten) is a medieval compilation and Stimulus amoris (De Strale der Goddelijcker Liefden) is a twelfth-century text written by Ekbert von Schönau ... Paets explicitly reused [Anthonis] van Hemert's translation, but some corrections were made by the Amsterdam notary public Daniel Bredan"--F.M. Dietz, "Under the cover of Augustine," in K. Pollmann and M.J. Gill, Augustine beyond the book (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pages 177-179.

"[T]he tracts Meditationes, Soliloquia and Manuale, with the titles Vierighe meditatien (Devout meditations), De Alleenspraecken der Zielen tot Godt (The soul's soliloquy with God) and Handt-Boecxken vander aen-schouwinghe Christi (Handbook on the observation of Christ) ... were attributed to Augustine, but were actually compilations of highly devotional fragments written by several medieval theologians."--F.M. Dietz, "Dark images, clear words," in K. Enenkel and W. Melion, Meditatio (Leiden: Brill, 2011), page 304.

Place of printing from STCN.

Signatures: A-3H⁶.

Woodcut title vignettes, illustrations, initials and tail-pieces.

Illustrations by Christoffel van Sichem the younger. See F.M. Dietz, "Under the cover of Augustine," in K. Pollmann and M.J. Gill, Augustine beyond the book (Leiden: Brill, 2012), page 181.

Each included work has special title leaf (title within border of double rules, with vignette) and separate pagination; signatures are continuous throughout.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy imperfect: all after leaf 2T1 wanting; leaf F3 wanting.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Lea Library copy has modern manuscript bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper; early manuscript inscription ("Desen bock Be orttoe[?] aen swÿn die en vinc[...]t[?]") in Dutch on verso of blank leaf following last printed leaf.

Lea Library copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Leo Cadogan Rare Books.

Lea Library copy has illustrated bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst on front pastedown; largely effaced autograph ("L[?] De[...]r[...]s[?]") in brown ink on front free endpaper; manuscript ownership inscription ("aen covent van Sinte pauwel"), perhaps of the Augustinian community Rood-Klooster (Auderghem, Belgium) also known as Conventus Sancti Pauli, on blank leaf following last printed leaf;

Lea Library copy bound in full contemporary parchment over thin wooden boards (right board broken; pastedowns detached); 1 fore-edge loop-and-bead closure (parchment and wood); manuscript spine title ("St. Augustine Meditat."); portion of a parchment leaf from a 15th- or 16th-century administrative document used as binder's waste; all edges gilt.

Lea Library copy: leaves (including title leaves) closely cropped at all margins with occasional damage to or loss of text; leaves 2K2-2T1 wormed with some loss of text and damage to illustrations.

Cited in:

STCN 84415452

Contains:

Innighe alleen-spraken der zielen tot Godt.

Devoote meditatien ofte aendachten.

Handt-boecxken van der aenschouwinghen Christi.

Strael der Goddelijcker liefden.

OCLC:

713885388