GIBBONS Richard S.J. [& BOUILLE Pierre S.J., BOUILLIUS Petrus]
Reference : H97796
(1620)
Duaci [Douai], Ex officina Marci Wyon, sub signo Phoenicis 1620 [6bl.] + [16] + 274 + [2bl.] pp., with engraved vignette on title page, 15cm., contemporary full-vellum binding (some traces of use and somewhat soiled, but still intact and in good condition), engraved capitals in text, text is clean and bright, good condition, rare, This work is bound together in the same volume with one other title by Bouillius: details see here below, [Detailed content: TITLE I: GIBBONS Richard S.J. (Wells 1549 - Douai 1632), Beati Gosvini vita celeberrimi Aquicinctensis monasterii abbatis septimi, a duobus diversis ejusdem coenobii monachis separatim exarata, e veteribus ms. nunc primum edita, cura P. Richardi Gibboni. This work contains a biography of saint Goswin (ca. 1082-1166) 7th abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Aquicinctum (Ancin) near Douai, cfr. De Backer-Sommervogel III col.1408 no.13 // TITLE II: BOUILLIUS Petrus S.J. (Dinant 1575 - Valenciennes 1641): Brevis et succincta narratio miraculorum Virginis Foyensis, quae singulari Dei munere e latebris annosae quercus enituit, anno M.DC.IX in Cellensi Toparchia non procul Dionanto Leodiniensis agri oppido a R.P. Petro Bouillio, etc., Gallice primum edita, indeque a quodam eiusdem Societ. Iesu, Latinitate donata. Duaci, typis Marci Wyon sub signo Phoenicis, 1620, [16] + 85 + [11] pp., frontispiece is lacking, text in Latin, good condition, This work is a monography on Notre-Dame de Foy (near Dinant, Belgium) and its miracles, text is clean, good condition, cfr. De Backer-Sommervogel volume I col.1921 no.3], H97796