Bidspirit auction | Rare Edition CORNUCOPIAE CONCIONUM SACRARUM

Rare Edition CORNUCOPIAE CONCIONUM SACRARUM by Charles Van Horn, 1676 - Description: Rare Edition of CORNUCOPIAE CONCIONUM SACRARUM ET MORALIUM FORMATARUM. PARS SECUNDA: SIVE TRACTATUS MARIALIS DE LAUDIBUS ET PRAEROGATIVIS BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS | By R.P.F. Carolo (Charles) Van Hoorn (Belgium, 1617 - 1668) | Published by Colonia Agrippinae, Koln, 1676. Fully bound in vellum (With acid free protective book cover), and 2 sets of cloth ties | 2 books in 1 volume, 525 pages, Title in red and black, With 2 woodcut vignettes. Title: CORNUCOPIAE CONCIONUM SACRARUM ET MORALIUM FORMATARUM. PARS SECUNDA: SIVE TRACTATUS MARIALIS DE LAUDIBUS ET PRAEROGATIVIS BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS. Approx. Dimensions: 4to - 12” H x 9.5 W. Author: R.P.F. Carolo (Charles) Van Hoorn (Belgium, 1617 - 1668). Binding Medium: Full Vellum Binding. Date: 1676 Notes: Charles Van Hoorn (1617-1668) was a Flemish monk, of the order of the hermits of Saint Augustine, considered one of the most remarkable preachers of the Netherlands in the 17th century. Van Hoorn published two collections of sermons, devoted respectively to the figure of the Virgin and the time of Lent: Tractatus Marialis and Tractatus Quadragesimalis. These two publications were combined posthumously under the title CORNUCOPIAE CONCIONUM SACRARUM ET MORALIUM (The book offered in this lot). Tractatus marialis thus includes twenty-four sermons on the Mother of Christ, one on Saint Joseph and one on the apostle John The author presents the prerogatives of Mary, particularly the Immaculate Conception . The speeches are followed by an index of people and subjects, as well as an index concionatorum, that is to say suggestions for a new assembly of themes on the occasion of this or that Marian feast. Tractatus quadragesimalis, it contains thirty-eight homilies for Lent, but also on the Passion and resurrection of Christ . The book also has an index, with a brief synopsis of each of the homilies.