Paris, Jean Lambert for Poncet (Ponset) le Preux (1481-1559?) (around 1510). Mod. Parchment binding. -- 100 numbers Bl, (5) pages. -- Rare manual on the duties and rules of the priesthood. Extremely rare edition. According to GW only 3 copies in public institutions. -- Jacobus de Gruytrode was an important Carthusian monk, prior and writer of the 15th century. century. He was born around 1400/10 in Gruitrode (Belgian Limburg) and died on the 12th. February 1475 in Liège. His work within the Carthusian Order was characterized by high administrative responsibility. After joining the order (probably in 1427), he held the office of prior several times: first in the Liège Charterhouse from 1440, in Zierikzee in 1445 and again in Liège from 1447. In 1452 he was appointed Diffinitor of the Orde.
