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[CHAUNCY, Maurice].
Historia nostri saeculi martyrum cum pia, tum lectu iucunda, nunquam typis excusa.
Mainz: Franciscus Behem for S. Victor, 1550.
£2950.00
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FIRST EDITION. 4to. ff. [viii] LXV [iii]. Roman letter. Woodcut initials. A couple of small skilful minor repairs to title, touching a few letters of text, tear to blank margin of final leaf neatly repaired, slight age-soiling to edges of t-p, very occasional foxing and a minor wormhole, on some leaves hitting a letter. A very nice copy in modern blind-ruled calf, earlier morocco title label on spine, top edge red. Contemporary autograph of Jos Albus Widmistad in blank lower portion of title. First edition of Chauncy's 'Historia', which contains The Epitaph of Sir Thomas More, The Captivity and Martyrdom of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, The Captivity and Martyrdom of Sir Thomas More, The Martyrdom of Reynold Brigitt, and The Passion of 18 Carthusians of London. Chauncy was Prior of the English Carthusians at Bruges and the last of the fathers of the Charterhouse. Following the dissolution of the monasteries and a brief respite under Queen Mary, Chauncy and the members of his priory wandered about the Continent in search of refuge, settling in Bruges, and later Nieuport. The Albus on the title is almost certainly the Benedictine John James Whyte, abbot of the Scottish Monastery of St James in Ratisbon. Whyte, born in Ardlawhill (near Buchan) in 1552, was at the German College in Rome from 1574-6, and by 1578 he was a monk at Ratisbon, where he became Abbot in 1592. His 'Theses Theologiae' which he defended in public disputation with the Protestants were published in Ingolstadt in 1588. He was still active in the affairs of the monastery as late as the 1620s, when he was living primarily in Würzburg. (See Dilworth, 'The Scots in Franconia', pp. 28-56.) BM STC Ger. p. 408; Adams C-1421; Gillow I, p. 482; Shaaber C-236; Gibson, St Thomas More, 230.
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