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[Hagiography - St. Ursula] - CROMBACH, Herman

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[Hagiography - St. Ursula] - CROMBACH, Herman
[Hagiography - St. Ursula] - CROMBACH, Hermannus, S.J. - Auctarium sive liber duocimus [sic] S. Ursulae vindicatae pro traditione Coloniensi contra tres novas inanes conjecturas, Sodalitatem Ursulanam in agro Veronensi A. 453. ab Attila caesam esse. Cologne, Johann Wilhelm Friessen Jr., for the Officina Birckmannica, [1669], 4to, contemp. vellum with nicely decorated covers (small blind central orn. and cornerpieces), gilt edges, [16]-75-[5] pp. (only slightly browning). Fine copy. € 250/350 In 1647 Hermann Crombach S.J. (Cologne 1598-1680) published a large "biography" of St. Ursula and her 11.000 Virgins, a Cologne tradition, which in 1669 he had to defend against some English church historians. This "Auctarium" contains also a "Paean Parthenius" of the leading Neolatin poet Jacob Balde (1st publ. in 1664, his last publication). Woodcut Jesuit device on title. Ex-libris from the Nordkirchen library. Ref. Sommervogel no. 2. London, BL (1). Paris, BN (1). NUC.
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