CHAUNCY, Maurice, (with) HAVENS, Arnold, (and) WINHEIM, Erhard

A C17 sammelband of the first editions of Counter-Reformation works on Carthusian martyrology, pilgrimage and ecclesiastical antiquities. Maurice Chauncy (1509-81) was an English Carthusian. Having been spared martyrdom, unlike other monks from the London Charterhouse, by accepting the Oath of Supremacy after the Anglican Schism, he fled to a monastery in Bruges. His guilt for this weakness urged him to write works, including Innocentia , on the lives, customs and holy deaths of the Carthusian martyrs he knew at the time of Henry VIII. Arnold Havens (1540-1610) was Prior of the Charterhouse at Ghent. Whilst remembering those killed in London during the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII, his work provided an account of the martyrdom of twelve Carthusians from Roermond, murdered near the altar by Protestant soldiers during the Dutch revolt of 1572, as illustrated in the gory engraving. Havens called the soldiers haeretici who carried out this sacrilega barbaries out of avarice for the treasures of the Church. Little is known of Erhard Winheim (fl. early C17), whose works blend learned antiquarianism, local history and Counter-Reformation devotion. Peregrinatio transferred onto the map of the city of Cologne the route of the Seven Churches of Rome to be visited at pilgrimage e.g. the Cathedral, St Severin s Church and St Gereon listing orations to be recited in front of specific altars. Sacrarium Agrippinae (referring to the city s Latin name, Colonia Agrippinae) was devoted to the saints and churches of Cologne, with accounts of their history.

Gaspar Dinghens (1593?-1685) from Cologne studied theology at Louvain and was also versed in Hebrew. He joined the Dominican order in 1613 and entered a monastery in Antwerp; he was also sent on missions to Belgium and France.