JESUITS Ignatius of Loyola Saint Exercitia spiritualia 1563

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(JESUITS.) Ignatius of Loyola, Saint. Exercitia spiritualia. Jesuit woodcut device on title and last page; full-page woodcut diagram on D1v. 141, [1] leaves. 12mo, contemporary limp vellum with thong ties, binding worn, hinges reinforced; foxing through most of volume, title heavily spotted, with early scored inscription, minor worming in blank upper inner corners of C3-D2, front free endpaper lacking. Vienna: in aedibus Caesarei Colegii, dictae Societatis, 1563

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Third edition, and the first to appear under the author's name; the 1548 Rome original and 1553 Coimbra second edition were published anonymously. "The 'Spiritual Exercises' form the most famous modern textbook on ascetic discipline, the nature of sin, and Christian perfection by grace . . . As a work of religious inspiration the impact of the 'Exercises' has been almost as great outside the Society of Jesus as within"--Printing and the Mind of Man 74. Palau 291086.