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Vida de la Bendita Madre Isabel de Santo Domingo. Compañera de Santa Teresa de Jesus. Coadjutora de la Santa, en la Nueva Reforma De la Orden de Nuestra Señora d[e]l Monte Carmelo. Fundadora Del Monasterio de S. Josef de Çaragoça. I Relacio

Folio. pp. (44), 689, (47), including engraved title page signed by Jean de Courbes (1592-1641), a French engraver active in Spain. Extra-illustrated with a contemporary full-page portrait of Isabel “Elizabetha” de Santo Domingo signed by Johannes Berwinckel bound in after title page. Bound in contemporary yapp-edged vellum with calligraphed title on spine. Very rare sole edition of this large-format biography of one of the most trusted lieutenants of Teresa of Avila. The cult that seems to have developed around the early devotees of Teresa is a phenomenon fascinating in itself (witness the fame of Ana de Jesus and Ana de S. Bartolomeo), and the present lavish production, painstakingly printed by the Royal Press, is a worthy testament to the remarkable trajectory enjoyed by the Teresian Carmelites during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Professed as a nun by Teresa herself in 1565, Isabel enjoyed a career spanning 59 years and assisted in the founding of numerous convents, earning Teresa’s affectionate designation as her ‘Vicar General.’ Born in Cardeñosa near Avila in 1531, Isabel lost her mother at the age of four and was abandoned by her father and placed in her aunt’s ca

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