Goddelijcke historie van het wonderbaer en verholen leven van de conninginne der enghlen met een schoone leeringhen tot de uytterste volmaecktheijdt in drij deelen en acht boecken beschreven door de salighe en wonderlijcke Maria de Jesu abdisse van de religieusen van de onbevleckte ontfangenisse binnen de stadt van Agreda in Spagnien.

12mo, c. 19,5 x 15 cm: 274 ff., on paper, Dutch, written within ruled pencil border by two readable hands (minor marginal soiling, sm. wormtrack in final ff.).

Contemp. sheep, gilt spine with raised bands and morocco label (rubbed, repaired, mod. endpapers; remains and description of older binding loosely added). In good condition.

María de Jesús de Ágreda, the "Santa Theresa of the Baroque" (1602-1665) is famous for her "Mystica Ciudad de Dios" (1st 1668) which was translated in Latin, French, German, Italian and other languages. There also was a flowering of manuscript translations in many countries. The present manuscript proves that she was also read in the vernacular in convents of the Low Countries.
Prov. Ms. entry of "penitenten Recolectinen tot nevel" (front endpaper). - "Sr. Beatrix a Sto Mauritio" (f. 1r).