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<p>8vo. (49), (1 terminal blank). With several bars of music. Contemp calf. Remarkable survival of manuscript rules for an exiled group of nuns ousted from the Netherlands. Under the leadership of Elisabeth Hurckmans the nuns travelled from Amsterdam to Antwerp, arriving in 1733. Here they were forced to work as weavers to support their convent. The present rules were evidently composed for the use of the transplanted nuns by a local deacon, and contain the most essential rites and orations for daily use. The manuscript is entirely in Latin save for a Dutch passage to be repeated by novices professing their entry to the convent. The convent was disbanded under Joseph II in 1783
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de Bezerra, Guilielmus A. J. (Guillielmus Antonius Josephus)</div>
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