D. Dionysii Carthusiani insigne comentariorum opus, in Psalmos omnes Dauidicos. Quos ipse multiplici sensu quantum fieri potuit, nempe Literali, Allegorico, Tropologico, & Anagogico (id quod nemo hactenus praestitit) non nisi solidissimis sacrae scripturae locis, doctissime explanat. [Ensemble] D. Dionysii carthusiani, in quatuor evangelistas enarrationes, praeclare admodum, & ab eruditissimis optimisque viris quam diutissime desideratae, atque nunc ex altera : eaque diligentissima ad archetypon recognitione, sublatis mendis quibus scatebant pluribus, quam diligentissime excusae

Fourth edition produced by Lodoycus Tiletanus for the first text; this edition having been shared among multiple printer-booksellers in Paris. Printer's device on title page. Initials. Colophon: Parisiis, Excudebat Iohannes Lodoycus Tiletanus. M. D. XXXIX. Not listed in Adams. Edition found several times in the British Library catalogue but with different printers.
The second work appears to have been published for the first time in 1532. Magnificent woodcut title page, with Claude Chevallon's printer's device, Christ in glory and a nativity with the Virgin and the Magi, symbolic images representing the position of Claude Chevallon's widow. Initials. This edition is not found in English catalogues; one copy at the BNF dated 1536 published by Gilles de Gourmont.
Full brown sheep 18th-century binding. Spine with six raised bands decorated with compartments, arabesques and small gilt fleurons. Leading edges and headcaps outlined with gilt roll. All edges speckled red. A small loss at the joint of the second board and one of the leading edges. Surface abrasions. Some small wormholes.
Numerous manuscript notes on both texts, which were trimmed when the book was rebound in the 18th century. Two very faint marginal dampstains affecting a few pages, otherwise a handsome copy. 65 lines per page.
The scriptural writings of Denis the Carthusian were published from 1530 onwards and comprise 14 books; the two works we offer concern two fundamental texts of the Bible: the psalms of David and the four gospels, two collections, one from the Old Testament, the second from the New, entirely emblematic of the Catholic Church's reading of Christ's church. These commentaries were authoritative from their publication (Denis died in 1471) as they bring together all the opinions of the church fathers and theologians of his time. The multiplication of Denis's editions in the 1530s rests on the vast Counter-Reformation movement initiated by the Church. Protestantism was indeed primarily based on Bible reading, and the Catholic Church had to maintain, by drawing on its history, the exegetical monopoly. Furthermore, the Church thus relied with Denis the Carthusian on a great mystical and philosophical figure participating in spiritual and Christian renewal, moreover a canonical figure (Denis's doctrinal position being moderate, between Aristotle, Plato, and Saint Augustine), which directly opposed that of Luther, excommunicated in 1521 and outlawed from the Empire shortly after.
A 19th-century bookplate on one of the endpapers, as well as several other unidentifiable ones at the end of the first text and on the title page of the second.