JACOBUS de Clusa Jacobi de Paradiso…De animabus a corporibus exutis tractatus cōpendiose ac studiose collectus [Basel, Thomas Wolff, 1520 or 1521]
An attractive edition of this important work which appeared seven times in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, written by the great Carthusian preacher from Brandenburg, Jacobus de Clusa (1381-1565). In it he animadverts upon the state of the soul after death with discourses on into what places or shelters the soul is led, ghosts, how to tell a good from a bad spirit, etc. A professor of philosophy at the University of Cracow, he was one of the most eminent theologians of his age although less appreciated, perhaps, in Italy owing to his criticisms of the excesses of the Roman Church. He is known either as Jacobus de Paradiso (as here) from the Polish monastery where he was abbot or as Jacobus de Clusa from the Carthusian monastery at Erfurt where he spent the last quarter of his life. Not in Adams or RLIN; OCLC locates the copy at Notre Dame
4to. 28ff. Title printed in red and black, fine full-page woodcut on title-verso and device on penultimate page, both by URS GRAF, light waterstain in upper margin, in modern attractive blindstamped half vellum, author’s name blackstamped on front cover.
£900
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