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Conceptos del Amor de Dios Escritos por la Beata Madre Theresa de Jesus sobre algunas palabras de los Cantares de Salomon. Con unos annotaciones del Padre M. Fray Geronymo Gracian de la Madre de Dios Carmelitano [Bound with Conceptos del Di

8vo. pp. (13), 194. Large printer’s emblem of a Sacred Heart on title-page, with a full-page woodcut of Teresa of Avila presenting her book to Christ on verso of title-page (captioned in Dutch). [Bound with Jerónimo Gracian’s Conceptos del Divino Amor […], published in the same year by the same printer. 8vo. pp. (16), 248, with large printer’s emblem of a Sacred Heart on title-page, and a full-page woodcut of Teresa of Avila presenting her book to Christ on verso of a8 (as above).] Bound in 19th century half black calf. Extremely rare first/early editions of these controversial works by Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) and her spiritual director, Jerónimo Gracián (1545-1614), presenting both mystics’ interpretations of the famously erotic Song of Solomon. Teresa’s Conceptos del Amor de Dios were excluded from her collected works published by Luis Sanchez in Madrid in 1611; it is possible that they appeared in Brussels in order to escape the notice of the Spanish Inquisition, which had specifically forbidden vernacular exegeses of Scripture. Her treatise was principally addressed to her fellow nuns to share the delight and the understanding she experienced in the Song of Songs, and was o

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