Ventes live - Lot 1115
[Hagiography]
Historia da vida prerogativas, e louvores do glorioso S. João Evangelista. Tirada de varios authores [...].
Lisbon, A. Alvarez, 1628
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Description du lot
16mo: [7]-36 ff. (f. [8] most probably blank and f. 8 missing; sl. dampstaining, sm. marg. wormholes and wormtracks, sm. hole in text of the 3 last ff.).
Mod. limp. vellum, gilt-titled flat spine.
Very rare first edition of the biography of John the Evangelist, based on extracts from the Bible and Latin authors. Written by Maria Madalena (d. 1637), from the Order of Saint Claire, nun to the Convento de Madre de Deus in Lisbon.
Ref. BnP.
Prov. Copy sold in the sale of Azevedo's library in 1921 (catalogue notice joined).
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