[NUNS]. De Ribera, B. Juan. Regla y Constituciones dadas á las Religiosas del Convento de S. Gregorio de la Ciudad de Valencia… Valencia: D. Benito Monfort, 1834. 8vo. [ii (blank)], XIII, [1], 281, [1]; [6] pp. (index).

With six bars of music printed in red and black on two pages, and printed
sidenotes throughout. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. first edition of rules for the nuns of San Gregorio, an Augustinian convent in Valencia, Spain, that was demolished in 1911 to make way for the Olympia Theater. Among the rules we find guidelines for taking confession and sections describing progressively worse sins by the nuns themselves, from being late to choir to physically assaulting the Prioress. OCLC locates no copies in the U.S. and just one abroad, Navarra.

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