[Indulgences in Spanish, Italian and German from the library of Henry Charles Lea]. [not before 1670-1889, bulk 1889].

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Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909,. [Indulgences in Spanish, Italian and German from the library of Henry Charles Lea].

[Indulgences in Spanish, Italian and German from the library of Henry Charles Lea]. [not before 1670-1889, bulk 1889].

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Collection of twelve printed broadsides, originally housed in a portfolio containing a larger collection of indulgences (including two incunables and a number of facsimiles) presumably used by Henry Charles Lea in writing his History of auricular confession and indulgences in the Latin Church. Ten are Spanish indulgences issued under the seal of Miguel Payá y Rico, Archbishop of Toledo (whose signature appears in facsimile), in 1889, and printed in Madrid by "Tip. de los Huérfanos, Juan Bravo, 5"; each contains a blank space for the name of the recipient to be filled in. One is a 19th-century German reproduction of a woodcut illustration of the five wounds of Christ; it is supposed to be an indulgence granted by Pope Innocent VIII in 1485, rediscovered in Nuremberg in 1880 and reproduced in conjunction with an exhibition by the Verein Dresdner Buchhändler in 1883. This document has a blue printed paper label ("Hist. liter.") affixed to its lower left margin. One is an Italian summary of indulgences granted by various popes to those using devotional objects made of olive wood, printed no earlier than the late seventeenth century (cf. Lea, H.C. A history of auricular confession and indulgences in the Latin church, III, p. 515). This document has 2 brief ms. notes in pencil in Henry Charles Lea's hand on the recto and an early ms. note in ink in another hand on the verso.

12 broadsides ; 32 x 44 cm. or smaller.

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