DescriptionRose of Lima Frontispiece Vita Mirabilis Women of the Book Collection.jpg
English: Frontispiece of the first edition of the first biography of Rose of Lima, the first American saint. This engraved added title page features a portrait of ‘Rosa Peruana’. Later the same year, an octavo edition of the Vita Mirabilis et Mors Pretiosa Venerabilis Sororis Rosæ de S. Maria Limensis, ex Tertio Ordine S. P. Dominici ac Sanctissimum d. N. Alexandrum VII. Pontificem Max. Excerpta & collecta Per P. M. F. Leonardum Hansen Provincialem Angliæ, & Socium Reverendissimi P. Magist. Generalis Ord. Præd. was also published featuring a much inferior frontispiece. Credit: Women of the Book Collection, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University
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Engraved frontispiece of Hansen's first edition of Vita Mirabilis, et Mors Pretiosa, picturing Rose of Lima, Credit: Women of the Book Collection, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University