COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF TOBIT

MAUDEN, DAVID VAN.

Speculum aureum vitae moralis seu Tobias (...).

Antwerp, Jan van Meurs, 1631.

Folio (330 x 215 mm). In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Wear to extremities. Corner's bumped, with loss of leather. Boards with scratches with loss of leather and spine-ends chipped. Vague dampstain to upper margin throughout, index with a few worm-tracts, otherwise internally nice and clean. (36), 895, (186) pp.

Exceedingly rare first edition Mauden's extensive commentary on the Book of Tobit, also known as the Book of Tobias in some versions.
The book is included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons and the Dead Sea Scrolls, but not in the Jewish Masoretic text. Protestant tradition places it in the Apocrypha, with Anabaptists, Lutherans, Anglicans and Methodists recognizing it as useful for purposes of edification and liturgy, albeit having non-canonical in status.

David van Mauden (1575–1645), jurist and theologian, also functioned as parish priest of the church of Our Lady of the Chapel in Brussels and dean of the church of Breda.

Order-nr.: 61098