Late 19th C Mini Black Leather Clasp Portuguese Devotional Prayer Book with Inserts
Late 19th C Mini Black Leather Clasp Portuguese Devotional Prayer Book with Inserts
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Mini Black Clasp Book - Flores de Piedade
Late 19th C Portuguese Devotional Prayer Book
Flores de Piedade ou Livrinho d'Oracoes
Written By: P.A. Luiz Moreira
Printed by Benziger & Co S.A., Einsiedeln, Switzerland (1899)
Second edition with ecclesiastical approval
Little prayer book was intended for private devotion, often used by Portuguese and Brazilian Catholics around the turn of the 20th c
Author Father Luiz Moreira was a professor at the Seminario Episcopal dos Carvalhos in northern Portugal, and Benziger & Co was one of the largest Catholic publishers in Europe
Black full-grain leather with gilt border tooling and a gilt Marian-style radiant cross on front
Original leather strap with metal button closure, embossed with the monogram "IHS" (Jesus)
Striking gilt-and-black patterned papers with radiating crosses
Includes a period devotional chromolithographic holy card insert of the Christ Child with doves
Mini Black Clasp Book - Flores de Piedade
Late 19th C Portuguese Devotional Prayer Book
Flores de Piedade ou Livrinho d'Oracoes
Written By: P.A. Luiz Moreira
Printed by Benziger & Co S.A., Einsiedeln, Switzerland (1899)
Second edition with ecclesiastical approval
Little prayer book was intended for private devotion, often used by Portuguese and Brazilian Catholics around the turn of the 20th c
Author Father Luiz Moreira was a professor at the Seminario Episcopal dos Carvalhos in northern Portugal, and Benziger & Co was one of the largest Catholic publishers in Europe
Black full-grain leather with gilt border tooling and a gilt Marian-style radiant cross on front
Original leather strap with metal button closure, embossed with the monogram "IHS" (Jesus)
Striking gilt-and-black patterned papers with radiating crosses
Includes a period devotional chromolithographic holy card insert of the Christ Child with doves