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Repertorium statutoru[m] ordinis cartusiensis per ordinem alphabeti.

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First printed edition of the Statutes of the Carthusian Order, printed at the expense of the editor, Gregor Reisch (c. 1467–1525), author of the Margarita philosophica, for distribution to members of the Order only.

The original compiler, Guigo de Castro (Gigues du Chastell), became a monk of the Grande Chartreuse in 1107 (St Bruno had died in 1101), and three years later was elected prior. ‘To Guigo the Carthusian Order in great measure owes its fame, if not its very existence. When he became prior, only two charterhouses existed, the Grande Chartreuse and the Calabrian house where St. Bruno had died; nine more were founded during his twenty-seven years’ priorship. These new foundations made it necessary to reduce to writing the traditional customs of the mother-house. Guigo’s Statutes, composed in 1127 or 1128, have always remained the basis of all Carthusian legislation’ (Catholic Encyclopaedia).

There are four large cuts representing the history of the Carthusian Order and seventeen portraits of popes, all by Urs Graf (see His, Urs Graf 203–223). Koegler (Kunstchronik, N.S. XVIII, p. 290) attributes the representation of ‘Guillhelmus Rainaldi’ to the Master DS. According to Isaac (no. 14140 in his supplement to Proctor) this work was printed by Amerbach in association with Johannes Froben and Johann Petri. In some copies the six parts are bound in a different order.

Provenance: ‘Ex libris Vallae Dei’ in a contemporary hand on first leaf, perhaps the charterhouse of Valdieu Réno in Normandy; pencilled H.P. Kraus collation note dated November 1957 on verso of final leaf.

VD 16 G 4071; Adams G 1559; Machiels G584.

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