Format: folio (2\u00b0), block height 29 cm.<\/p>\n
Volume: two bound volumes\u2014Volume I: [5], 186 pp., [4] pages of registers; Volume II: 208 pp., [4] pages of indexes.<\/p>\n
Binding: original, full-leather binding from the period, with a loss of leather at the top of the spine.<\/p>\n
A collection of sermons and reflections by Antoni Stefanowicz, delivered in Krak\u00f3w\u2019s churches, on the life and passion of Christ and the Marian mysteries, written in the Baroque style of preaching. It was written during the reign of Jan III Sobieski and printed at Wojciech G\u00f3recki\u2019s publishing house in Krak\u00f3w. The two parts have separate subject indexes, making the book easier for preachers to use.<\/p>\n
On the front endpaper, there is a paper inventory label in Cyrillic reading \u201cVilnius Public Library\u201d with the letter H. This library was established in 1867, in part from book collections confiscated from Polish monasteries following the January Uprising.<\/p>\n
There are areas of missing skin on the upper part of the spine and at the corners. The title page is duplicated; there are notes on it, as well as on the first and last two pages. There are ink stains on pp. 183\u2013186, and the missing sections of the last 7 pages have been filled in with paper.<\/p>\n
An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Title: The Work of Human Salvation Published: These Are the Most Important Mysteries of the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Most Holy Mother, the Virgin Mary, Explained in Sermons Delivered in Various Churches in Krak\u00f3w […]
Author: STEPHANOWICZ Antoni [Stefanowicz] (ca. 1618\u20131679) [preacher, theologian, provincial superior of the Reformed Fathers in the Lesser Poland Province]
Publisher: Officina Alberti Gorecki, Krak\u00f3w
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