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LUIS DE GRANADA Dux Peccatorum. Opusculum valde...

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LUIS DE GRANADA Dux Peccatorum. Opusculum valde pium, in duos libros distributum: quo peccatores a via vitiorum & perditionis ad regiam virtutum ac salutis aeternae viam perducuntur. Cologne A. Quentell 1608 12mo: [45-3 bl.]-863-[1 bl.] pp. (some browning & spotting). Contemp. blind-ruled overl. vellum, flat spine with later title and libr. number, ties (flyleaves gone). Good copy. Ascetical work by Luis de Granada (1504-1588), Dominican Friar, first publ. in Spanish in 1556, and here in a Latin translation by M. von Isselt. This work has been compared with Thomas à Kempis' "De imitatione Christi" and has been translated in several languages. Large woodcut mark on title. Ref. VD17 12:102883M. Prov. Ms. entry on title.