Manuscript on paper of Cesare Speciano, Propositioni christiane et civili subalternate a Dio. With a Preface to the reader in which the author states that he completed the work while he was serving as Papal nuntius of Pope Clement VIII in Prague in 1597
Description:
In Italian., Unidentified watermarks: paschal lamb, with countermark PP plus clover; bird on mountain enclosed in a circle., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat italic hand., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Italian red morocco gilt, with unidentified arms of a cardinal (vair) stamped in gilt on both covers. Edges gilt and gauffered. Unobtrusive repairs at head and tails of spine and joints.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Speciano, Cesare.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian, Counter-Reformation, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper, in a single cursive hand, of an English version of Manrique?s biography of Sister Ana de Jes?s, a companion of St. Teresa of Avila who also founded Carmelite convents in France and the Spanish Netherlands.
Description:
Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Christian saints--Spain--Biography, Counter-Reformation, Devotional literature, English, Mysticism, and Women--Religious life
