A Soul's Journey: Franciscan Art, Theology, and Devotion in the Supplicationes Variae

by Amy Neff

The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence houses an extraordinary manuscript: an anthology of devotional texts and images called the Supplicationes variae, dated 1293 and made for use in Genoa, that ends with a remarkable series of full-page illustrations. Although the Supplicationes does not include or illustrate Bonaventure's seminal text, The Soul's Journey into God, the manuscript is effectively the site for performance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888442106
• ISBN13: 9780888442109
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: PIMS
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 5.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 10.2" x 12.2"