Vita divota o sieno diversi esercizi di Pietà da praticarsi da un'Anima veramente cristiana in tutto il corso di sua vita. Opera utilissima per ogni Ceto di Persone. Raccolta da vari autori franzesi dal P. Ermenegildo Laget Cherico Regolare delle Scuole Pie e dedicata alla Religiosa Pietà dell'Illustrissima Signora D. Maria Felice Pacca de Marchesi della Matrice Già Badessa nel Nobile Monastero di S. Vittorino dell'inclito Ordine di S. Benedetto. Manuscript on paper. Benevento, 1746

8vo (149x95 mm). [8], 883 [i.e. 882], [1] blank pp. Elegant and clear handwriting in black ink, initials and title of the chapters in red. Different watermarks. Contemporary Neapolitan calf, panels with foliate corner-pieces within concentric gilt and blind-tooled fillets and elaborate frames with phytomorphic motifs, in the centre two gilt amphorae within a gilt plaque, spine with gilt title and floral ornaments, gilt edges, marbled endleaves (binding slightly worn, corners and edges rubbed, traces of clasps, tiny warm holes and other minor losses to spine and hinges). Occasional light foxing and browning. A good, genuine copy.

Ermenegildo Laget was a regular cleric of the Benevento pious schools. This apparently unrecorded and unpublished devotional manuscript is dedicated by him to Maria Felice Pacca, abbess of the Benedictine convent of San Vittorino in Benevento. The Pacca family, from Naples, had also become the Marquis of Matrice, a province of the County of Molise in the Diocese of Benevento, in 1705.

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