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[Leyes de la Esposa]. [Begins:] Tratado esp[i]r[i]tual y mystico para personas Religiosas que aspiran â la perfeccion. Compuesto Por el V. M.e María de Jesus de Agreda Como lo Ofrece en la divina historia de su Mistica Ciudad de Dios titulo

8vo. pp. (2), 58, 58 (bis)-247, (8). Bound in contemporary limp vellum, remains of fastenings (binding separating from text block at top joint). Contemporary or early inscriptions to 3rd f.e.p. verso, both in same hand: “De la R.a M.e Sor Juana Teresa de Jesus” and “De la libreria de S.ta Ysabel de los Ang.s.” Later paper place-markers. Manuscript copy of a tract by the important mystic and writer Sor Maria de Jesus, Abbess of Ágreda (1602-1665, born Maria Coronel y Arana), known for her biography of the Virgin, ‘Mystica Ciudad de Dios.’ Sor Maria de Jesus is considered Venerable in the Roman Catholic church and was subject to a bilocation - while residing in Spain she appeared to the Jumano Indians, who lived in present western Texas/New Mexico/northern Mexico. At the end of the introduction of the present work, she notes that when she wrote a second version of her ‘Mystica Ciudad’ - having burnt the first, after her confessor instructed her that in the church there was no place for women’s writing - her divine inspiration was so abundant that she wrote another, companion book - the present title. These ‘Leyes de la Esposa’ (Laws of the Bride) are serving as a spiritual guide to b

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