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Gli ordini della divota Compagnia delle Dimesse; che vivono sotto il nome, et la protettione della purissima madre di Dio Maria Vergine

4to. pp. (12), 109, (3). Bound in 18th-century vellum boards. Woodcut vignette to title page of St. Catherine of Alexandria before the Virgin and Child with motto ‘Reddet coronam Dominus’, small woodcut of Virgin and Child to p. (9), p. (12) with woodcut of Virgin with Child adored by angels surrounded by 16 small woodcuts, four being of the Evangelists and the other 12 being scenes from Mary’s life. Another woodcut of Virgin and Child (the Virgin crowned by angels) to p. 29 with same motto. Pp. (2) and (3) at end with woodcuts of seals respectively of Michele Prioli, bishop of Vicenza (d. 1603), and of Agostino Valier (1531-1606), cardinal and bishop of Verona. Woodcut inhabited and decorated initials, the former showing Jonathan, King David, the Empress Helena, and St. Luke. Manuscript initials to title page, “G.P.” Manuscript letter extensions. Rare first edition, illustrated, of these statutes for the company of the Dimesse of Vicenza, a women’s active congregation devoted to the Virgin Mary founded in 1579 by Deianira and Agnola Valmarana, and Isabetta Franceschini, to all of which the present book is dedicated. These statutes were the most radical of those for the new Italian

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