Obras Completas

Obras Completas

St. Teresa de Jesus

Preliminary study by Luis Santullano

Madrid: M. Aguilar

1942

The thick boards of this book are covered in a red leather that is gilt stamped with an Islamic-influenced, Renaissance-inspired design with a cartouche (blank area in middle of cover). The back cover mirrors the front cover. There is a narrow gilt border around the edges while the rest of the cover is a series of leafy intertwining lines. The spine has different gilt leafy scroll work with a gilt line border around the gilted title. The edges of the cover have gilt lines pressed into them, while the square (visible portion of cover extending beyond textblock) is covered with a leafy scroll that does not match the covers.
The edges of the texblock are covered with gold leaf. The endpapers are a dull golden satin fabric with a flower motif sewn into the fabric. The frontispiece is an image of the saint surrounded by a deep floral decorative border that looks like a lithograph. With the exception of the frontispiece, the paper for this book is onion-skin, a very thin almost see-through wood pulp paper.
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St. Teresa is one of four female Doctors of the Catholic Church, canonized as a saint on March 12, 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, and elevated to the status of Doctor by Pope Paul VI on September 27, 1970, making her the first woman Doctor of the Church.
St. Teresa lived in Spain from 1515-1582.

Religion

SPECIAL BX899 .T4 1942

Hardcover book, 7.5 x 5.75 inches

Spanish

This book has another record in the "Beautiful Books" Exhibit Collection.
This book can be seen in the photograph, Display Case 8.

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