Dionysius the Carthusian

 Liber utilissimus, de quatuor hominis novißimis, nempe
I. Morte.
II. Iudicio.
III. Inferni pœnis.
IIII. Gaudi's cœli.
Eiusdem item, colloquium de particulari iudicio animarum.

Paris, Jean Roigny, 1543

8 , 180 lvs.

Full vellum binding, manuscript title to the spine

- Not in STC 265. –

Early Paris printing of the "much-read and frequently reprinted work" by the late medieval Belgian mystic Dionysius Carthusianus (Wetzer-W. III, 1808),
whose nearly 200 visionary writings and ascetic lifestyle earned him the fearsome epithet Doctor Ecstaticus.

Ex-library

Lacks endpapers, inner hinges amateurishly repaired.


  Size 4 by 6 1/3"