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Vendor. Specializing in the Hispanic world, literature, early exploration and travel, Jesuit relations & vocabularies, South American iconography, early printing and religion.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Jesuade juventutis Belgiis per illustri Societatis Jesu dilecto filio: manuscript

 Collection — Volume 1
Scope and Contents Bound manuscript of 107 leaves, written in cursive Latin script, in several hands. First 2 leaves blank, followed by a title page, and main text of 74 leaves with handwritten foliation (leaves 16, 35, and 64 blank). Leaves 62-63 repeated. Leaves 75-100 blank except for foliation; 2 blank leaves at end. Includes epigrams, emblems, laudatory poetry, letters, and essays on tobacco and chocolate.00 |g Contents (supplied by cataloger; Latin titles transcribed from caption titles): |g...
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Open for research.

Dates: 1734 - 1741

Libro devoto que contiene algunos abisos muy ynportantes spirituales: manuscript

 Collection — Volume MS.2019.033
Scope and Contents Bound manuscript of 145 leaves, comprising a compendium of 16th-century Spanish devotional texts attributed to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Francisco of Borja, Saint John of Avila, Louis de Blois, and Luis de Granada. Five unnumbered leaves (blank except for inscription on second leaf "Escúsatte de cargos, que es de cristianos timoratos a dios") precede the main text of 128 leaves with handwritten foliation on upper right rectos, followed by 1 blank leaf, an index of 5 leaves, and 6...
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Open for research.

Dates: probably between 1550 and 1580

Suscipe D[omi]ne universam meam voluntatem, accpie memoriam, intellectum, et voluntatatem : manuscript

 Collection — Volume 1
Scope and Contents

Bound manuscript of 120 pages (last 5 pages blank), consisting of a devotional text written in the first person. Text begins on page 3 "Firma Animi decreta. Quemadmodum testudines et cochleae suas domunculas..." and concludes on page 113 "In itineribus memor sis frugalitatis, et modestiae ac pietatis."

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Open for research.

Dates: 1700s?