Verlag: Louvain / Leuven, Belgium; 1775., 1775
Anbieter: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, Deutschland
Titlesheet (former blank front flyleaf), (9) pages 'Proemium Rhetorica / .' and 'Deperiodo.', 5 blank sheets, pages 17-257 (of?), 1 blank sheet, blank rear flyleaf. - Vellum binding of the period over 5 raised bands with colour-marble-paper covered panel with vellum corners and red edges; small 4to.(ca. 19 x 16 x 2 cm). *** [Ausklingender FRÜHLINGS-VERKAUF bis Donnerstag, den 14.05.2026 / Expiring SPRING-SALE until Thursday, May 14, 2026: um fast 50% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of almost 50%; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 1.650,-] --- ORIGINAL MAYENCE LECTURE-MANUSCRIPT (PRELIMINARY DRAFT) OR TRANSCRIPT; ends mit page 257 (marked 'D. M.' at top right) apparently in a running sentence at the bottom of the page. - WELL PRESERVED. --- The Old University of Leuven (Louvain) was founded in Leuven, Brabant (then part of the Burgundian Netherlands, now part of Belgium) by Jean de Bourgogne (John IV, Duke of Brabant) in 1425, confirmed by Pope Martin V. on December 9. Among its rectors were Michel de Bay (Michael Baius, 1513-1589, founder of the doctrine of 'Baianisme'(precursor of Jansenism), Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638) himself, the father of Jansenism and Charles Lambrechts (17531825), later Minister of Justice of the French Republic from 1797-1799. The university was closed in 1797, a week after the cession to the French Republic of the Austrian Netherlands and the principality of Liège (jointly the future Belgium) by the Treaty of Campo Formio. . .(see wikipedia).