Rare edition of Henrick Herps important work on mystic theology. The work is divided into three parts, all intended for moral and religious education. The first part in 12 chapters covers how to die well, the second part how to live the "true" life and the last part how to lead a contemplative life. Herp develops his own system of mythical theology, but also derives much from the work of Ruusbroec.
Herp (d. 1478), a Franciscan born in the Southern Netherlands, was rector of the Brethren of the Common Life in Holland but returned to the South, where he lived in Mechelin. Peter Schoeffer at Mainz first published the present work in a German translation in or before 1474, and Gerard Leeuw published the first edition in the original Dutch in 1488 and it was translated into Latin and other languages beginning in 1513. Though placed with all Herp's mystical theology on the index of prohibited books in 1559, it was revived in 1585 and went through further editions. The reference on the title-page to its having been newly examened and approved may allude to this.
In good condition. The binding rubbed and lacking one tie. BCNI 5252 (2 copies); STCV (2 copies); Verschueren 29A; WorldCat (4 copies).