Daily Devotion
BOUTMY, C.
‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri domino domino vice comiti de Haro et d’Enghien &c a C. Boutmy 1760’. [Belgium, 1760.]
Manuscript on paper, in Latin, 8vo (160 x 95 mm), pp. [6], 118, [2]; neatly written in brown ink in a single hand, 10 lines per page, rococo decorative border in pencil to title, text within ruled borders, some decorative tailpieces; some marks to title; very good in eighteenth-century brown morocco, floral and foliate borders roll-tooled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, edges gilt, bronze endpapers; ownership inscriptions of Josephus Baasen and C. De Feller, note to last page ‘huius possessionem libri reverendo admodum optimoque in Bezdorf pastori Defeller debeo’ (see below).
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‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri domino domino vice comiti de Haro et d’Enghien &c a C. Boutmy 1760’.
An attractively bound unpublished devotional manual composed by one C. Boutmy (unidentified) for his patron Henri vicomte de Haro et d’Enghien.
The text consists of morning prayers, a preparatory exercise for hearing Mass, litanies of the Virgin Mary, evening prayers, and a prayer to St Laurence as patron saint. Laurence, third-century deacon and martyr of Rome, was supposed to have been roasted on a gridiron and to have quipped ‘I’m well done on this side, turn me over’, hence his patronage of both cooks and comedians.
Provenance:
Karl de Feller served as a pastor in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg, between 1792 and 1797.