Les Insinuations de la Divine Piete de Ste Gertrude, Vierge, Abbesse de l'Ordre de S. Benoist.
Paris: Chez Jean Henault, 1671. Hardcover. Very good. Item #17620 .
Traduction novelle. 4to. (20, 480 pp. Recent full calf. Wood engraving to the title and at the beginning of the text, Spine in six compartments, red morocco lettering label, gilt, blind tooling, boards tooled in a blind diaper patterns marbled endpapers. Some occasional staining, some contemporary annotations, else a very good copy.
Rare quarto edition of a French translation of the mystical revelations of St. Gertrude the Great (1256-1302), by J.-A. Mège (1625-1691), Benedictine of Saint-Maur. And prefaced with her biography. In French.
Gertrude the Great was a German Benedictine mystic of the 13th century known for her writings on spirituality and mysticism.
Price: $1,000.00