Societas Jesu apostolorum imitatrix, sive Gesta praeclara et virtutes eorum, qui è Societate Jesu in procuranda salute animarum, per apostolicas missiones, conciones, sacramentorum ministeria, evangelij inter fideles & infideles propagationem, ceteráque munia apostolica, per totum orbem terrarum speciali zelo desudâ[ve]runt. Pars prima Societatis Jesu Europaeae.

Tanner, Mathias, 1630-1692 · 1694 · Pragae : Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem, per Adalbertum Georgium Konias, factorem · 55 pictures

A 1694 Latin devotional history printed at Prague by the Jesuit college of St Clement, written by the Jesuit Mathias Tanner and aimed at members of the Society of Jesus and the Catholic faithful. Its engravings are small framed scenes of Jesuit missionaries and martyrs, each with a Latin caption below, showing praying figures, kneeling penitents and dramatic miracles in the baroque manner. A designer could draw on their dense hatching, dramatic light falling from heaven, and tight framed compositions for period-styled religious or historical artwork.

Jesuits · Imprint 1694

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