Pierre SUTOR, [Pierre COUSTURIER]
Habes pie lector D. Petri Sutoris doctoris theologi, professione Cartusiani librum
Jehan Petit|Paris 1522|14 x 20 cm|relié
First edition, very rare. Printed by Jean Parvi in gothic rotunda. Title page within a portico, with publisher Jean Petit's device beneath the title. One criblé initial. Large publisher's device on verso of final leaf, the recto bearing the colophon. A manuscript note in ink beneath the title, dated 1537. One copy at the British Library, 2 in Spain (Universities of Madrid and Salamanca), one at the Hesburgh Library, USA, nothing in French catalogues.
Colophon: Parissis sumptibus honesti viri Ioannis Parvi via Iacobea sub lilio aureo co morantis. M.D.XXII.
Full sheep binding, worn, 17th century. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Brown sheep title label. Head cap torn with loss along lower joint. Last compartment loose, and tail cap torn. 3 corners cut and heavily bumped. Epidermis worn with scratches. One tear to title page, starting from upper margin, 2.5cm long. Foliation jumps from CLXXXVII to CLXXXIX without loss. Two leaves CCC follow in succession by error. CCCXXXI to CCCXXXIII without loss. Interior fresh.
Pierre Sutor, pseudonym of Pierre Couturier, was a French theologian, doctor at the Sorbonne then Carthusian. In this work on the Carthusians, the author refutes some detractors of monastic life, particularly that of the Carthusians. In the first book, he makes an apology for his order; in the second, he discusses the occupations of the Carthusians and the excellence of their spiritual exercises, and devotes a chapter to the writers of this order. He furthermore supports the truth of the history of the canon of Paris, and treats monastic vows and the manner of observing them.
Colophon: Parissis sumptibus honesti viri Ioannis Parvi via Iacobea sub lilio aureo co morantis. M.D.XXII.
Full sheep binding, worn, 17th century. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Brown sheep title label. Head cap torn with loss along lower joint. Last compartment loose, and tail cap torn. 3 corners cut and heavily bumped. Epidermis worn with scratches. One tear to title page, starting from upper margin, 2.5cm long. Foliation jumps from CLXXXVII to CLXXXIX without loss. Two leaves CCC follow in succession by error. CCCXXXI to CCCXXXIII without loss. Interior fresh.
Pierre Sutor, pseudonym of Pierre Couturier, was a French theologian, doctor at the Sorbonne then Carthusian. In this work on the Carthusians, the author refutes some detractors of monastic life, particularly that of the Carthusians. In the first book, he makes an apology for his order; in the second, he discusses the occupations of the Carthusians and the excellence of their spiritual exercises, and devotes a chapter to the writers of this order. He furthermore supports the truth of the history of the canon of Paris, and treats monastic vows and the manner of observing them.
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