Lot 929
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(EYMEREN, Reinalda v.?). Die Groote Evangelische Peerle. Vol devote ghebeden, Goddelijcke oeffeningen, ende gheestelijcke leeringhen (…). Antw., J. Cnobbaert, 1629. 564 (10) pp. Ti-p. w. Jesuit woodcut emblem, throughout rubricated in red and underneath chapters red dec. elements. Beautiful old richly blindtooled full cf. over wooden brds. w. raised bands, 2 brass clasps and catches, 4 fingertabs. (Page with the approbation missing (but added in ms. on the first free endpaper), stamp on ti-p. & last p., ti-p. laid down, 2 lvs. dam. and the partly missing text skilfully restored, margins of some pages strengthened, thumbed/soiled in places, a bit browned).
The female writer of "De Peerle" is one of the most important personalities in the second hey-days of the female mystic movement in the Netherlands in the beginning of the 16th century, where Hadewijch and Beatrijs van Tienen (Nazareth) were characteristic of the first period in the 13th century. For a long time the author was unknown, and it was not sure if she even belonged to 'the Oisterwijkse Kring'. In several articles in "Ons Geestelijk Erf" P.J. Begheyn came to the conclusion that the author must be Reinalda van Eymeren (1463-1540). She was a canoness in the 'St.-Agnietconvent' of Arnhem, a foundation of Modern Devotion that had an elaborate library and was known for the high spiritual and intellectual level of the inhabitants. - BCNI, 8133; Foppens II, p. 905-6. - With bookplate of 'Ruusbroec Genootschap'.€ 600
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