jos? luis mu?oz (1 Ergebnisse)

Madrid: en la Imprenta Real, 1645. Folio (28.3 ? 19.4 cm). Engraved title page, [18] pp., engraved full-page portrait, 461, [6] pp. Title and engraved portrait by Juan de Noort. Red morocco binding by Emilio Brugalla, dated 1957, with gilt fillets and additional central decorative motifs to boards; spine over five raised bands and with gilt decorations in compartments; gilt wheel design to edges and turn-ins; double guard with marbled paper; in binder's red cloth slipcase with leather-rimmed edges. Exlibris of prominent Madrid architect Luis Cervera Vera (1914?1998). The slipcase with very minor rubbing; spine sun-tanned; professional restoration to lower edge of title leaf and lower corner of a few other leaves (barely noticeable closed tears), likely also by Brugalla. First edition of the first "vida" and writings of Mariana de San Jos? (1568?1638). The book contains three volumes of autobiographical text attributed largely to Mariana de San Jos?, a fourth volume based on recollections of nuns from her convent, authored by Mu?oz, and a fifth volume containing her commentary on the Song of Songs. Born Maria Manzanedo Maldonado in Alba de Tormes, Mariana de San Jos? was an Augustinian nun who, along with Agust?n Antol?nez, initiated the reform leading to the Order of Discalced Augustinian Nuns, or Augustinian Recollects, who led a more austere and ascetic spiritual life. Born into a noble family, she lost her parents aged eight and was raised by two aunts who were Augustinian nuns. She entered the convent of Ciudad Rodrigo, in the province of Salamanca, in 1586 and served as prioress in 1598. With the support of Antol?nez, then provincial of Toledo, they began to reform the female branch of the order, founding reformed convents in Madrid and Salamanca. These new convents were inspired in part by the Reformed Carmelites and the spirituality of Saint Teresa of Avila. By the early seventeenth century, the reform movement took hold, leading to further new convents in Eibar, Medina del Campo, Valladolid and elsewhere. In 1610, Margaret of Austria, the wife of Philip III of Spain, supported the foundation of the Monasterio de Santa Isabel and the Monasterio de la Encarnaci?n, in close proximity to the Royal Castle. Since 1912, the Augustinian Recollects have been an independent order, with a presence throughout Spain and Latin America. Having met Teresa of Avila as a child, her spiritual outlook and writings were profoundly inspired by the Carmelite saint, whose work she saw herself as continuing, both as a reformer and as an author of mystical texts laden with intense rhetoric. She also followed Teresa in writing her own commentary on the Song of Songs (Sobre el libro de los cantares de Salomon), which forms the final part of this volume. "The biblical love poem provided a constitutive narrative that shaped the spiritual identity of the early modern religious who sought to become God's perfect spouse through imitation of the Song's protagonist, the Shulamite bride" (Teresa Hancock-Parmer, "The Spanish ?Shulamite Brides?", 2018). In Mariana's account, the significance of the Song is correlated with the daily experience of convent life. At the same time, it has been pointed out that Mariana's "vida" is a prime example of the tendency to depict virtuous and saintly nuns by reference to masculine traits, in order to make them more appealing to masculine audiences, with one of her successors describing her as "a prudent, manly woman" (cited in: Spanish Women in the Golden Age: Images and Realities, 1996, p. 105). Mariana de San Jos?'s Beatification is currently underway, having been opened in 1993. In 2017, Pope Francis approved her "heroic virtues" in an important second step. In an accomplished binding by Emilio Brugalla (1901?1987), considered the leading Spanish fine bookbinder of the twentieth century. In 1921, he began his training in Paris, returning in 1923 and creating widely exhibited bindings throughout his career. As of August 2024, OCLC shows only two holdings of the first edition in North America (at Harvard and Berkeley Law Library). The 1646 second edition is held at Indiana and Princeton.