Lot 59

Indulgences.- Alabado sea el Santisimo Sacramento. Patente de la Cofradia del Santísimo Sacramento de la Santa Iglesia Catedral de Durango, unrecorded, Durango, no printer, April, 1799.

 

Estimate: £400 - 600

Description

Indulgences.- Alabado sea el Santisimo Sacramento. Patente de la Cofradia del Santísimo Sacramento de la Santa Iglesia Catedral de Durango, broadside confraternity membership certificate for Juana Maria Belarques, woodcut floral decorations, ink manuscript insertions and signatures of society officials, all within a woodcut typographical border on 3 sides, folds, otherwise in a very good state of preservation, 425 x 315mm., Durango, no printer, April, 1799.

⁂ Unrecorded. Examples of Durango printing are rare. During the second half of the sixteenth century confraternities began to flourish in New Spain. They promoted the idea of purgatory and the notion of remission through indulgences.

Description

Indulgences.- Alabado sea el Santisimo Sacramento. Patente de la Cofradia del Santísimo Sacramento de la Santa Iglesia Catedral de Durango, broadside confraternity membership certificate for Juana Maria Belarques, woodcut floral decorations, ink manuscript insertions and signatures of society officials, all within a woodcut typographical border on 3 sides, folds, otherwise in a very good state of preservation, 425 x 315mm., Durango, no printer, April, 1799.

⁂ Unrecorded. Examples of Durango printing are rare. During the second half of the sixteenth century confraternities began to flourish in New Spain. They promoted the idea of purgatory and the notion of remission through indulgences.

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