Sibylla TrygAndriana seu de Virginitate, Virginum statu & iure Tractatus Nouus & iucundus [WITH] Linea Amoris, sive Commentarius…

Frankfurt: M. Becker for J. Fischer, 1610.
First Edition.

14cm x 7.5cm. 281, [7], 148, [8] pages. Full red leather, gilt lettering, gilt and blind decoration, all edge gilt. Text is in Latin.

First edition of two related works often bound together by the German jurist Heinrich Kornmann examining sexuality, chastity, and the regulation of relations between the sexes in early modern Europe. Sibylla TrygAndriana is a learned treatise on virginity, female chastity, and the legal status of unmarried women, enriched with discussions of astrology, superstition, folklore, and other strands of early modern learning, while Linea Amoris considers love, courtship, and adultery through the lens of civil and canon law, classical literature, and biblical authority.

Joints rubbed. Very minor foxing. Very minor wormhole to small section of fore-edge. Very Good Condition.

AU$2,500