VIRTUOUS VIRGIN
ARIAS, Francisco.
Paleys der deughden begrypende de naervolghinghe der alder-heylichste ende weerdichste Maghet Maria. Eerst gemaeckt int Spaensch door den eerw. vader Franciscus Arias priester der Societeyt Iesu.
Antwerp, Gheleyn Janssens, 1609.
8vo, pp. [xvi], 553, [1]; with half-title, title-page copper-engraved, small woodcut of Virgin and Child to p. 10, woodcut initial; small losses to lower outer corners of first few leaves, wormhole(s) to lower margins throughout, some dampstaining and toning, occasional marks; bound in seventeenth-century stiff vellum, yapp fore-edges, green ribbon ties to fore-edge (two lacking); slightly stained, endpapers renewed; inscription at foot of title ‘Egbert Maler Anna Arens 1639’, ink stamp to verso of half-title ‘Ex libris Carmel. Noviomagensis’ with another faint stamp, ‘Bibl. Res. S. J. De Krijtberg Amstelodamensis’ stamped to front endpaper and to *8r.
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Paleys der deughden begrypende de naervolghinghe der alder-heylichste ende weerdichste Maghet Maria. Eerst gemaeckt int Spaensch door den eerw. vader Franciscus Arias priester der Societeyt Iesu.
First Dutch edition of this work of Marian devotion by the Spanish Jesuit and ascetical writer Francisco Arias (1533–1605), first published in Spanish as De la imitacion de Nuestra Señora in 1588.
Born in Seville, Arias joined the Jesuits at the age of twenty-six and taught theology at Córdoba, Trigueros, and Cádiz. His ascetical works were much read and translated. ‘He was held in the highest esteem by the great master of the spiritual life, John of Avila, and St Francis of Sales, in the “Introduction to a Devout Life”, recommends the perusal of his works … At his death it was difficult to protect his body from the piety of the people, who proclaimed him a saint and endeavoured to secure parts of his apparel as relics’ (Catholic Encyclopedia).
Here Arias discusses imitating the virtues of the Virgin Mary, namely her humility, faith, charity, devotion, obedience, purity, withdrawal, modesty, poverty, and patience.
No copies traced in the UK or US.
STCV 3149324; USTC 1002356; Sommervogel I, col. 541, no. 3.
