‎LIPSIUS Justus ( Joost Lips ) :‎
‎Diva Virgo Hallensis. Beneficia eius & Miracula fide atque ordine descripta [1] Diva Sichemiensis sive Aspricollis : nova eius Beneficia & Admiranda. [2] Collection of 2 works in one volume.‎

‎ [1] Antwerpen, ex officina Plantiniana, apud Viduam & Filios Io. Moreti. 1616, in-4°, 25 x 18 cm, (8) nn pp + 86 + (10) nn pp (complete). Title with engraved vignet. penultimate page with wood-engraved printer's mark. [2] Antwerpen, ex officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasarum & Viduam Ioannis Moreti, & Io. Meursium. 1620, in-4°, (8)nn pp + 69 pp + (11)nn pp ,Title with engraved vignet. penultimate page with wood-engraved printer's mark. Title page of the first work with contemporary manuscript ex-libris of the Jesuits of Brussels and with a modern small circular stamp. Bound in contemporary full vellum ( vellum soiled and with some scratches), title of first book also a bit soiled and thumbed, Two later editions of Lipsius' popular narrative of the miracles of the Holy Virgin at Halle (BCNI 6287) and Scherpenheuvel (BCNI 6784). The great humanist returned to the Roman Catholic belief, leaving the protestant North, and now devoting his time and art to the spread of the news of the miracles of the Holy Virgin in his beloved Brabant. As a real Fleming he finally went back to his ancestral hearth.‎

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