39 - LUDOLPHE the SAXON or the CARTHUSIAN.

LUDOLPHE the SAXON or the CARTHUSIAN. The Life of Jesus Christ. 1 large volume comprising 2 tomes of 927 and 986 pp., folio size, bound in full tan calfskin (post.), spine ribbed and adorned with floral motifs. Table of contents, 55 pp.; dedication to Mme Eleonor de Bourbon, Abbess of Font-Evrauld, 3 pp.; a treatise on cogitation (meditation), a treatise on knowledge, a treatise on obedience, a treatise on the Eucharist, etc. First printed on April 23, 1582—Privilege granted on August 2, 1581, to Guillaume de la Noé, bookseller in Paris. Book titled: The Life of Jesus Christ … revised and retranslated by Jean Langlois, Sieur du Fresnoy, etc. [The original Latin edition is believed to have been published in 1474 in Strasbourg under the title *Liber de Vita Christi*]. Work set in two columns. Rare traces of tiny wormholes; the final pages of the Epistle at the beginning of the work are missing. Careful restoration of the last leaf of the treatise on the Eucharist. Ref: Brunet, *France littéraire XVe*, pp. 118; Cailleau, Vol. II, pp. 169–170; Fournier, pp. 323; Ladvocat, Vol. III, p. 250: “Rare edition.” Ludolph of Saxony, also known as Ludolph the Carthusian or Ludolf of Saxony, was born around 1300 in Saxony and likely died on April 10, 1377, in Strasbourg. First a Dominican and later a Carthusian, this German monk became famous for his major work *The Great Life of Jesus Christ* (*Vita Christi*). A VERY BEAUTIFUL COPY with a very fresh interior, free of foxing, and untrimmed.