Ursprung, Aufleben, Herrschaft, Verfall und jetzige Zustande sammtlicher Mönchs- und Klosterfrauen-Orden im Orient und Occident. Erster Band.
by Biedenfeld, Ferdinand von
(FIELD GUIDE to MONKS and NUNS)
2 VOLUMES
Weimar; 1837
Size 5 by 8.5"
original 3/4 leather bindings
Illustrated with hand colored plates
Very good interior condition, minor foxing and toning, some wear of bindings
Text in German
First and only edition of an attractively illustrated history of monastic orders, both in the Orient and the Occident.
The hand-colored plates juxtapose the monks and nuns of different orders in their habits.
This work is one of the earliest imprints that depict nuns’ clothes in living color.
The proliferation of female monastic orders in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries very likely inspired the appearance of this publication, as ever more variegated color schemes and the incorporation of symbols and other accessories emerged to help distinguish the sisters of more recent foundations from earlier ones.



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