Siedemnastowieczne modlitewniki cysterek w zbiorach Biblioteki Parafii św. Bartłomieja i św. Jadwigi w Trzebnicy
Seventeenth-century Prayer Books of Cistercian Nuns in the Collectionof the Parish Library of St Bartholomew and St Hedwig in Trzebnica

Summary/Abstract: Part of a collection held by Cistercian nuns was deposited in the Library of Trzebnica Parish. Among other works there are three manuscript prayer books dated to the 17th century. Spiritual Meditations, dedicated to Katarzyna Rajska by Cistercian monk Kasper of Przemęt, is composed of several parts. Among them, the most interest- ing are Eucharistic ponderings and a treatise on the preparation for a holy death. The work Instruction of Spiritual Exercise is unsigned, nor do we know its owner. The main body of this manuscript consists of 40 meditations focused on the reform of religious life. The last exemplar in the collection belonged to Abbess Krystyna Pawłowska and was the gift of a Carmelite nun, Agnieszka of Jesus the Lamb. Its author, Bonawentura Frezer, a Discalced Carmelite, is a known seventeenth-century preacher and writer of mystical literature. His Protestations and various acts constitute a collection of mystical monologues on the presence of God. All of these manuscripts were made as an aid for the personal prayers of the Trzebnica nuns and had been long in use. The texts form ap- propriate research material for historians of religious spirituality in the Baroque period

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