Pepin, Guillaume.

Rosarium aureum mysticu[m] nuper editum.Item aliud parvum Rosarium ab eodem editum: continens ermones septem. Inituali Salutate. mariam.

      [Claude Chevallon for] Jean Petit, Paris: [1520, January 18.] 8vo. 157 x 98mm. a8,(2)a-z,3 (signs),A-G8. 18th c. French sheep, gilt spine (rubbed),title gilt on lettering piece, 17th c. inscription of the Celestines at Paris (lightly deleated)on t.p, bookplate of Daniel Rock (1799-1871); very clean copy. T.p. in red and black, PetitÕs woodcut device First Edition. Pepin (c1465-1533) Dominican, born the son of a laboureur he entered a Dominican convent in his home town of Norman Evreux. He went from there in 1494 to study at Saint-Jacques in Paris with Jean Cleree. In 1504, after receiving his doctorate, he became prior of Evereux. Between 1508 and 1510, he returned to Paris as a regent doctor at the university. ÒPepin preached many times before Francis I, and his studies at the university and position as regent doctor all made him well-known to the people of the Capital. Pepin was not only a renowned preacher, but also a prolific writer. As one of the great popularizers of devotion to the rosary, he produced such works as the Rosarium aureum B.Mariae Virginis, which doubled as sermons and combined practical aspects of Marian doctrines with earlier theological formulations. Some of his Mariologies display a certain theological creativity, although Pepin never breached the limits of orthodoxy.Ó [Larissa Taylor, Soldiers of Christ,2002.] Moreau/Renouard 2440. See: Roskoyany, BMV, VIII, 22,311-312. Not in Adams, BM French