Author: RIBADENEYRA, Pedro de
Title: Flos sanctorum. Primera(-sexta) de los santos. Ed. J. E. Nieremberg; F. Garcia
Description: Madrid, Imprenta Real, etc. 1716-1717. Large 8vo. 6 volumes, totalling 3735 pp. Overlapping limp parchment binding, slightly soiled and wrinkled. Remnants of ties on front and back cover. With jesuit title vignet. (Interior age-toned; some fly-leaves spotted, some page-downs damaged and a few spines loosening. With library stamps of a jesuit college.) With owner's entry dated 1717, indicating this book to be used in the refectory of the Company's house in Valladolid. ¶ Pedro de Ribadeneira, 1527-1611, was a Spanish first-generation jesuit, author, ascetic and the first and most significant biographer of St. Ignatius of Loyola. His principal publication is this hagiography, a compilation of the lives of saints. The first edition was published in 1599. Cf. Sommervogel VI/1724; 1737-1739; Jesuiten-Lexikon 1534-1535.

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