DONTHERS CORNELIS Contemplation des Sept Principales Effu

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DONTHERS, CORNELIS. Contemplation très dévote des Sept Principales Effusions du Précieux Sang de Nostre Seigneur Jesu Christ [and other texts]. illuminated manuscript in french, written in brownish black ink in roman hand with dedication, running heads, and divisional headings in italic, some passages and headings in red, 21 lines, recto and verso, on vellum. with eleven (of 12?) full-page miniatures in colors and gold, chiefly showing scenes from the Passion of Christ; 22 7-line divisional initials with penwork decoration; 1-line initials in gold throughout. 135 (of 138) leaves; lacks leaves 1 (title), 31 (probably with miniature), and 34. 132x90 mm, 17th-century calf gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip, covers slightly warped. Front endleaf inscribed: "Ex dono illustris donicellae Elisabetho de Wilhelm 1773." Belgium? 17th century?

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Possibly transcribed from a printed edition in French of a devotional work by Donthers (d. 1554), a priest who served as confessor to the Franciscan convent of Nivelles in Belgium. The book was apparently first published in Flemish in 1556. There is no single definitive source for the bibliography of the printed editions; all are of extreme rarity. None are recorded in Bibliotheca Belgica or NUC; Belgica Typographica 5649-51 cites 3 editions in Flemish to 1600 and none in French; OCLC locates the copy of a 1591 edition in French in the Bavarian State Library. See Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica saeculi XVI I, 244-27.