Sanctuarium monacharum. Der Klosterfrawen Heiligthumb
München: Peter König : (Anna Berg,), 1623. 14 engraved plates. First German edition. This copy is bound in early cloth over wooden bards with remains of clasps and catches present under the cloth. a very nice copy a a rare small devotional. (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/valerio-da-venezia_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ ) Isidoro de Villapadierna, Valère de Venise (Ballardini), in Dictionnaire de spiritualité, ascétique et mystique, doctrine et histoire, XVI, Paris 1994, coll. 164 s.; Donna, disciplina, creanza cristiana dal XV al XVII secolo. Studi e testi a stampa, a cura di G. Zarri, Roma 1996, pp. 127, 687-692; E. Raimondi, Il romanzo senza idillio. Saggio sui Promessi Sposi, Torino 2000, pp. 199 s.
VD 17 https://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/details:bsb11129212 ; OCLC: 820430179. VD17: 23:303489U
B3Kat ID. BV040596769BSB ID12598196: BM 8820 V164.
Two US copies: SAINT BONAVENTURE UNIV HARVARD UNIV. Item #863
Includes Bonaventure's biography of Clare of Assisi and biographies of some 70 other Franciscan women saints. Valerio da Venezia seems to had a lot of at least epistolary contacts with Women and Nuns.
Valerio da Venezia edited this collection including the Life of the glorious Saint Clare of Assisi composed by Saint Bonaventure [...] with the lives of the blessed nuns of his holy Rule, and those of the Third Order, with a dialogue for the instruction of the novices (Venice 1610, German translation München 1623). These biographies, some of which reprinted separately, not without errors but it is original in terms of concept and testimonies on Valerio da Venezia edited this collection including the Life of the glorious Saint Clare of Assisi composed by Saint Bonaventure [...] with the lives of the blessed nuns of his holy Rule, and those of the Third Order, with a dialogue for the instruction of the novices (Venice 1610, German translation München 1623). It includes over seventy biographies, some of which reprinted separately, not without errors but original in terms of concept and testimonies on female Franciscanism.
Price: $3,500.00