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La Venerable Madre, Ana de Jesus. discipula, y Compañera, de la S. M. Teresa de Jesus, y principal aumento de su orden. Fundadora de Francia, y Flandes. dirigida a la Ser[enissi]ma Infanta D. Isabel Clara Eugenia. Por el R[everendisi]mo P.

Folio. pp. (4), (8), v-xxxi, (1), 376, 208, (14), including letterpress half-title, engraved title page featuring Ana flying on an eagle (as described in the ‘Soneto’ on p. xxx), engraved full-page portraits of Isabella Clara Eugenia and of Ana de Jesus. All illustrations signed by Cornelis Galle after Nicolas van Horst. Bound in contemporary yapp-edged limp vellum. Faint 17th century inscription on flyleaf, “con Licencia de [la] Señora Priore en este […?]. Early issue – evidently the author’s or an editorial copy – of the first biography of the Discalced Carmelite and mystic Ana de Jesús (1545-1621), with over 120 manuscript editorial alterations. The most significant of these is a ‘slashed’ page (leaf ***3 of the preface) indicating that the editor did not approve of the laudatory sonnet for Ana. Born as Ana de Lobera, Ana de Jesús became one of St. Teresa’s closest companions and founded nine convents, some of them in the Spanish Netherlands, supported by the Archduke Albert and his wife, the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia. Ana played an instrumental role in protecting the Constitution of the early Teresian convents from outside meddling and it was Ana who gathered the literary

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