LORINUS (Joannes). - Lot 82

LORINUS (Joannes). In Catholicas tres B. Joannis, & duas B. Petri Epistolas Commentarii. Munich, Joannis Crithii [Crithius], 1610. In-4, cold-stamped sowskin on aisle, boards framed with a wide compartmented border and a roulette, coat of arms in black in the center of the first, two metal clasps, four-ribbed spine, title in ink at head (German binding of the period). Commentary by Jean Lorinus (1559-1634), a Jesuit father from Avignon, on the Epistles of Saint John and Saint Peter. Attractive German blind-stamped binding, with the arms of an abbey. On the title is a manuscript bookplate of a Holy Cross monastery in Werda (Saxony), then run by an Abbot Leonard. The decoration features a roulette decorated with two small medallion portraits, repeated and accompanied by the words hei and tur, and a wide border decorated with biblical subjects, including Christ trampling the serpent, also accompanied by the words MORS ERO MORS TUA MOR, ECCE ANGNUS DEI QUI TOLL, or HIC EST FILIUS MEUS. The binding is complete with both clasps, and the cold-stamped decoration is still legible. Some foxing, sometimes more pronounced, inherent to the quality of the paper used at the time in the Rhine region. A few stains to the binding.