Sancte Vrsule Fraternitas inge[n]s p[er]utilis et Christifidelib[us] multum necessaria

Traut, Wolf, approximately 1486-1520, illustrator, Peypus, Friedrich, 1485-1534, printer, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), Ursulines · 1513 · [Nuremberg : Friedrich Peypus, 1513] · 2 pictures

A 1513 devotional book printed in Nuremberg by Friedrich Peypus for members of the Ursuline confraternity, with woodcut illustrations by Wolf Traut. The first picture is a dense ring of praying figures and a central crucified Christ framed by text columns, while the second shows a wooden-boat scene with a lamplit table, angels, and robed saints rendered in fine black-and-white line.

Catholic Church · Devotional literature · Germany · Nuremberg · Prayers · Prayers and devotions

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