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Book/Printed Material Portraits of the Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict, Printed with Copper Plates, with Praises from Their Lives. Imagines sanctorum Ord. S. Benedicti, tabellis aereis expressae cum eulogiis ex eorumdem vitis

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Title

  • Portraits of the Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict, Printed with Copper Plates, with Praises from Their Lives.

Other Title

  • Imagines sanctorum Ord. S. Benedicti, tabellis aereis expressae cum eulogiis ex eorumdem vitis

Summary

  • This book is an illustrated calendar of Benedictine saints, marking the annual feast of each with an illustration and a brief introduction. Its German provenance is clear from the fact that it includes, in addition to Saint Benedict and his Italian disciples (Benedict himself on March 21, his sister Scholastica on February 10, Maur on January 15, and Placid on October 5), numerous monastic saints revered for their life and work in the German lands. The latter include Adalbert, Aemilianus, Amalarius, Alcuin, Bede, Boniface, Columbanus, Elisabeth, Emmeram, Gertrude, Gregory, Kilian, Mechtild, Odilo, Odo, Procopius, Rhabanus Maurus, Rupert, Walpurga, Wilibald, and others. An index of the saints is at the back of the volume. The author, Karl Stengel (1581--1663), was a Benedictine abbot and major theological writer who lived much of his life in Augsburg, Bavaria.

Names

  • Stengel, Karl, 1581-1663 Author.

Created / Published

  • Bavaria : Monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra (?), 1625.

Headings

  • -  Germany
  • -  Italy
  • -  480 to 1625
  • -  Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
  • -  Benedictines
  • -  Saints

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 184 pages : illustrations ; 20 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Saint John's Rare Books

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666832

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Stengel, Karl, Author. Portraits of the Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict, Printed with Copper Plates, with Praises from Their Lives. Bavaria: Monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra ?, 1625. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666832/.

APA citation style:

Stengel, K. (1625) Portraits of the Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict, Printed with Copper Plates, with Praises from Their Lives. Bavaria: Monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra ?. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666832/.

MLA citation style:

Stengel, Karl, Author. Portraits of the Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict, Printed with Copper Plates, with Praises from Their Lives. Bavaria: Monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra ?, 1625. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666832/>.