Pratica, y exercicio espiritual de una sierua de Dios
Subtitle: A cuyo exemplo puede qualquier mo[n]ja o persona espiritual, y devota exercitarse para agradar mas à Jesu Christo, esposo de su alma. Obra muy provechosa, y necessaria para renovar el espiritu, y devocion en la observancia de las reglas, y de la vida espiritual, assi en los monastarios como fuera dellos. Sacada á luz por la buena memoria de Nicolas Sfondato, primero obispo de Cremona, y despues cardenal, y vltimamente sumo Pontifice, llamado Gregorio XIIII. de felice recordacion
Contributors: Negri, Angelica Paola Antonia de', 1508-1555; Antonia de San Joseph
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1746
Place of publication: Con licencia, reimpresso en Lima
Language: spa
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Catholic Church; Spiritual exercises; Prayers and devotions
Other titles: Pratica, y exercicio espiritval de vna sierva de Dios.; Pratica espiritual.
Work titles: Prattica spirituale d'una serva di Dio
Notes: Medina wrongly attributes work to Nicolas Sfrondato.

First printed Macerata, Italy, 1576; first translated and printed in Spanish, Valencia, 1587.

Approbacion on p. [5], 1st count, is dated julio 6. de 1653 and suggests that this edition of the work is reprinted from a Zaragosa, 1653 issue.

Translation of: Prattica spirituale d'una serva di Dio, which is generally attributed to Giovanni Pietro Besozzi, first printed Macerata, Italy, 1576. Sometimes also attributed to Angelica Paola Antonia de' Negri. Cf. Edit16.ICCU; Diz. biog. degli ital., IX, p. 684; REBIUN; BL Integrated cat.; Melzi, G. Anonime e pseudonime, I, p. 377.

Signatures: [A]⁴ ([A]1 verso blank) B-2F⁴

Errors in paging: p. 98-133 numbered on the upper left hand corner of text block.

Title page printed within ornamental woodcut border; head piece; initial.

Medina, J.T. Lima, 981.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: upper right hand portion of title page wanting, affecting ornamental border.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full vellum.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Antoniá de San Joseph: autograph on verso of title page and recto of rear flyleaf.