1545 DUTCH & French Mysticism Margarita
Evangelica of Eschius Mary I Feminism
Nicolas van Esch (or van Ess) was a 16th-century Dutch
theologian known for his spiritual exercises and philosophical writings on
mysticism. This extremely rare, 1545 printing of Eschius’s ‘Margarita Evangelica’ was published in Cologne
by Novesiani. This book is a Eschius’s perspective on the divine wisdom found
in the Gospel. According to Davis and Farge’s “A History of Women in the West”, this work
“was among the most important precursors to
French mysticism”.
Curiously, this work comes with some controversy, particularly the
authorship. Some scholars believe it is a reworking of Reinalda van Eymeren’s “Evangelische Peerle”, which first
appeared in 1535, though the USTC makes the authorship undeniably Eschius.
Because of the relationship to female mystics, this work was regularly found in
women’s religious houses, most famously in the library of Queen Mary I of
England (Schutte, p.134).
According to the USTC, no examples of this book exist in any library
or institution in the Western Hemisphere – an extremely rare and highly
desirable work!
Item number: #14247
Price: $950
ESCHIUS, D. Nicolao
Margarita evangelica,
incomparabilis thesaurus diuinæ sapientiæ, in IIII. libros diuisus
Coloniae ex officina Melchioris Novesiani. M.D. XLV, [1545].
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 654 (unpaginated)
· References: VD16 M970; USTC 675059; Schutte, Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications;
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
· Size: ~6.25in X 4in (16cm
x 10cm)
· Exceedingly
rare
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