Compendio historial de la uida de la gloriosa S[anta] Rita de Casia monja en el observantissimo monasterio de S[anta] Maria Magdalena de Casia del Orden de n[uestro] p[adre] S[an] Agustin.

Lisperguer y Solis, Mathias, active 17th century · 1699 · Con licencia en Lima. : Por Joseph de Contreras, impressor real del S[anto] Oficio de la S[anta] Cruzada. · 2 pictures

A 1699 Spanish-language biography and sermon collection on Saint Rita of Cascia, written by Mathias Lisperguer y Solis and printed in Lima by Joseph de Contreras for Augustinian readers. The two pictures are plain text pages: one with a large spaced capital heading in italic letters over a script line, the other with an ornamental decorated initial letter beside dense black-letter type, offering a designer examples of early Spanish colonial typography and display lettering.

Rita, of Cascia, Saint, 1381?-1457 -- Biogaphy · Rita, of Cascia, Saint, 1381?-1457 -- Sermons · Rita, of Cascia, Saint, 1381?-1457 -- Poetry · Christian saints -- Biography · Christian saints -- Sermons · Christian saints -- Poetry · Sermons, Spanish -- Peru -- Lima · Sermons -- Peru -- Lima · Imprint 1699

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