‎LENSAEUS Joannes ( Jan De Lens ) - [ ] Franciscus van VLIERDEN - abbott Parc Abbey Louvain ( provenance ) :‎
‎De Fidelium Animarum purgatorio. Libri Duo. De Limbo Patrum Liber Tertius.‎

‎ Lovanii ( Leuven), Ioannes Masius, Petrus Faber , 1584, in-8°, (16)nn pp + 397 pp + (19) nn pp (complete). Bound in full overlapping vellum, with silk ties. The front cover contains a supra-libro : ''Reveren[do] Patri D[omino] Fran[cisco] Vlierden Abb[ati] Par[censi] + ''. On the back cover : ''Anno Domini 1584''. Both central decoration within a double gilt fillet. Inscribed on the first fly leaf : ''Ex dono authoris''. On the title page a small modern circular ex-libris stamp. Jan De Lens (Beloeil 1541 - Louvain 1593) became theology professor at Louvain university after occupying the same fuction at Parc Abbey. He donated this copy to the abbott of Parc abbey Franciscus van Vlierden ( Antwerpen 1546 - Louvain 1601) at the end of 1584 (privilege is dated 7 sept. 1584). Van Vierden received the abbott ordination on 2 may 1583. A beautiful and extremely rare testimony of personal relations in the Louvain university community at the end of the tumultuous 16th. c. The personal and dated binding is exceptionally well preserved, with even the silk ties in good order.‎

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