Prayers for a Nine Days' Devotion to Our Lady of Refuge

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Add.6631
  • Dates of Creation
      1800 (Circa)
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 volume(s) 1 volume

Scope and Content

'Novena de Nossa Senhora dos Remedios', Prayers for a nine days' devotion to Our Lady of Refuge, 66 folios. The title is contained within a roughly drawn frame of thick bands of foliage, with five putti interwoven. Similar though smaller frames occur at the heads of fos 8 and 14, the former containing two hearts pierced with a cross and a sword respectively, the latter the letters I. M. T.

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Acquisition Information

History Inside the front cover is the inscription 'Bought at Rej Jaer, Lisbon, June 28 / 53 W.J.R.'. Presented to the Library by Stephen Gaselee, 1930.

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