COMMENTARY ON JOB

[Bible. Commentaries. Job]: Jonghen, Henricus, OFM Rec.: Brevis elucidatio literalis S. Iobi Prophetae [...]. Antwerpiae. apud Petrum Bellerum 1661.

Franciscan scholar’s verse-by-verse literal commentary on the Biblical Book of Job, almost unknown outside mainland Europe. Henricus Jonghen (d. 1669) was reader in theology for the Franciscan province of Lower Germany (which encompassed the present-day Low Countries). He dedicates the commentary to Hermann Lisens, Franciscan provincial. The copy was early at (and perhaps bound for) the library of Buxheim Charterhouse in Bavaria. This was a high-status European institution, a free monastery of the Holy Roman Empire.

Details

First edition. One volume, 16.3 cms. x 10.4 cms., octavo, pp. [32] 461 [3]. Title in red and black. Woodcut printer’s device to title-page. Woodcut initials. Light or medium browning, nicely preserved, bound in pigskin, panelled and tooled in blind, all edges blue, clasps intact (one of the fastenings still no longer holds). Binding rubbed, slightly soiled, touch of wear at corners. Inscription to title-page. ‘Cartusiae Buxiae’, verso of title-page with armorial stamp of same (’Bibl. Buxheim’ i.e. Buxheim Charterhouse library). Later stamp of Bibl. Hageveld. Remains of old paper labels to spine.

STCV: c:stcv:12923975. BCNI 11753. OCLC shows no physical copies outside mainland Europe (one microform at University of Manitoba).