Maximilianus Sigel (1 results)

A didactic religious manual written in the form of a dialogue between Saint Francis of Assisi and a novice. It served as a practical and spiritual guide for the education and formation of newcomers to the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. The frontispiece was engraved by Anton Joseph Schindeler (active in Olomouc in the 1720s and 1730s) after his own design. Printed in Antiqua typeface; pages are decorated with simple headpieces, two large woodcut tailpieces, and one ornamental initial with floral motifs. Provenance: Handwritten ownership note on the title page likely reads "Ex Bibliotheca Heindorff." (the library of the Franciscan monastery in Hejnice/Haindorf) /// Paper binding with inscribed title on coloured backstrip; hardback, 267+[5] pp., frontispiece, 12° (9.5 x 15.5 cm), cover heavily worn and rubbed, endpapers and most pages foxed or slightly tanned, front endpaper and several leaves with minor creasing, verso of title page with 20th-century ownership stamp and call number written with pen, condition: fair Book Language/s: Latin.…