Prayers for the Infirm and Inattentive
[PRAYERS.]
Solidae devotionis epitome in nucleo orationum omnium, seu Pater Noster. Usui futura sanis; infirmis; moribundis; animarum curatoribus; tepidis, et majore pietate ferventibus; distracte, et attente orare assuetis Christianis. Data typis a bibliotheca catechetica domus probationis Societatis Jesu S. Annae, Viennae 1704. Vienna, typis Joannis Georgii Schlegel, [1704].
12mo, pp. 71, [5]; copper-engraved frontispiece, woodcut tailpiece; small abrasions to inner margin and some spots of blue ink to frontispiece; a very good copy in contemporary calf, spine in compartments, gilt edges, combed marbled endpapers; rubbed, small loss to front pastedown; preserved in a matching calf pull-off box lined with combed marbled paper; slightly rubbed.
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Solidae devotionis epitome in nucleo orationum omnium, seu Pater Noster. Usui futura sanis; infirmis; moribundis; animarum curatoribus; tepidis, et majore pietate ferventibus; distracte, et attente orare assuetis Christianis. Data typis a bibliotheca catechetica domus probationis Societatis Jesu S. Annae, Viennae 1704.
An apparently unrecorded short manual of prayers and devotions based around the Lord’s Prayer, ideally suited, according to the preface, to those short on strength through sickness or with short attention spans.
For those unable even to manage the totality of this slight text, a ‘very brief synopsis of all the acts and prayers’ herein is provided at pp. 56–58.
This work was printed by Johann Georg Schlegel, printer to the University of Vienna, under the auspices of the ‘catechetical library’ of the Jesuit house of St Anne. The frontispiece, depicting the Sacred Heart, is by Johann Andreas Pfeffel the Elder, who studied in Venice and worked in Vienna and Augsburg.
No copies traced on OCLC or KvK; not on VD18.