Vita Christi ex euangeliis e scriptoribus orthodoxis

Paris: Thielman Kerver, 1539. Hardcover. 19th century quarter maroon decorated morocco and marbled boards. Very good. 673 pages. 15.5 x 11 cm. Lacks title page. Printed in double columns in miniscule Gothic type, 58 lines in length. Ludolphus of Saxony 1295 - 1378), also known as Ludolphus de Saxonia and Ludolph the Carthusian, was a German Roman Catholic theologian of the fourteenth century. The Vita Christi, his principal work, is not a simple biography, but a history, a commentary on the Gospels with large texts borrowed from the Fathers, a series of dogmatic and moral dissertations, of spiritual instructions, meditations and prayers, in relation to the life of Christ, from birth to His Ascension. It has been called a summa evangelica, so popular at that time, in which the author has condensed and resumed all that over sixty writers had said before him upon spiritual matters. Ludolph of Saxony (c. 1295 - 1378), also known as Ludolphus de Saxonia and Ludolph the Carthusian, was a German Roman Catholic theologian of the fourteenth century.The Vita Christi, his principal work, is not a simple biography, but a history, a commentary on the Gospels with large texts borrowed from the Fathers, a series of dogmatic and moral dissertations, of spiritual instructions, meditations and prayers, in relation to the life of Christ, from birth to His Ascension. It has been called a summa evangelica, so popular at that time, in which the author has condensed and resumed all that over sixty writers had said before him upon spiritual matters. Badius Asensius' translation printed by Yolande Bonhomme, wife of the Parisian bookseller Thielman Kerver, originally from Coblentz. Some minor staining, occasional ink marginalia or underlining. Bookplate of Bibliotheca Victoris Gay, Architecti.