Franciscan Fraternity
[MICHELS, Eleonora.]
Seraphische Bruderschaft der HH. fünf Wunden, aufgerichtet von Sixto V. Röm. Pabst im Jahr 1587. Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Bayrhoffer, [28 May 1780].
8vo, pp. [4]; with large copper-engraving printed to p. [1] within typographic borders; a few small marginal chips, but generally very well-preserved; completed in manuscript (‘Eleonora Michels ex Civitate Juliacensi’, 28 May 1780).
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Seraphische Bruderschaft der HH. fünf Wunden, aufgerichtet von Sixto V. Röm. Pabst im Jahr 1587.
A seemingly unrecorded sign-up sheet and handbook for a Franciscan lay fraternity for both men and women, issued by the monastery at Marienthal near Geisenheim and completed in manuscript by Eleonora Michels from Jülich.
Prefaced by an engraving showing St Francis and his Stigmata, the text begins with a declaration, signed and dated by Eleonora Michels, that she has taken on membership of the fraternity; it is followed by the rules of the fraternity, including the responsibilities and privileges of its members and the various absolutions available to them, and ends with five prayers, one for each of the five Holy Wounds.
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