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ALBERTUS MAGNUS (?1193-1280, attributed to). Paradisus animae, sive Tractatus de virtutibus . Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 14 March 1489.
ALBERTUS MAGNUS (?1193-1280, attributed to). Paradisus animae, sive Tractatus de virtutibus . Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 14 March 1489. Chancery 4° (194 x 133mm). Gothic type. Full-page printer's device at end, woodcut initials, two spaces with red initial, rubricated. 20th-century calf by Charles Desamblanx of Brussels, tooled to a gothic design. Provenance : a few contemporary annotations -- André Himpe (catalogue of his library, E. Cockx-Indestege, 'Classica et humanistica: een Belgische incunabelcollectie uit de twintigste eeuw', De Gulden Passer 2003, no 3). Third edition. This devotional tract, ascribed to Albert the Great, describes the path leading to union of the soul with God, beginning in recollection and progressing to contemplation and meditation. Not in BSB, and rare on the market. HC 478; GW 705; BMC IX, 192; Bod-inc A-128; Pellechet 310; Goff A-292.