Subgroup within a larger confessional community with a distinctive high-religiosity lifestyle and clear membership

A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.

Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires, et des congregations seculieres de l'un et de l'autre sexe, qui ont esté establies jusqu'à present; contenant ... Les vies de leurs fondateurs & de leurs reformateurs: avec des figures qui representent tous les differens habillemens de ces ordres & de ces congregations ... / [Anon].

Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the gardens of the convent. Coloured line engraving.

Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.

The sources of English monastic life in the rule of Saint Benedict, and those who have embraced the rule: family tree. Etching by W. Hollar, 1655.

Creak Priory, Norfolk, England: ruins. Etching by Saml. & Nathl. Buck, 1738, after himselves.

Val-de-Grâce, Paris. Lithograph by Delpech after Arnout.

St. Vincent's Hospital, New York. Coloured wood engraving.

Saint Camillus de Lellis rescuing lives and offering shelter from the flooding Tiber, Rome. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.

Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the front of the hospital. Engraving by J. Redaway, 1820, after F. Nash.

Material: vellum; 77 ff. 4to.; leaf dimensions: width 13 cm, length 19 cm; written dimensions: width cm, length cm

MS.48

Saint Camillus de Lellis comforting patients in hospital. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

1 print : engraving ; image 18.8 x 15.3 cm

312 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Fra Francesco dal Bosco da Valdobbiadene, detto il castagnaro (1564-1640) e la prattica dell'infermiero / Claudio Bevilacqua.

1 volume<br/>26 leaves 4to. 19 x ; 14 cm On vellum. Vellum covers from part of a Papal letter [See below]. The beginning is wanting before Section X.

Platearius, Matthaeus (d. 1161).

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MS.48

Saint Camillus de Lellis comforting patients in hospital. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the front of the hospital. Engraving by J. Redaway, 1820, after F. Nash.

Fra Francesco dal Bosco da Valdobbiadene, detto il castagnaro (1564-1640) e la prattica dell'infermiero / Claudio Bevilacqua.

Platearius, Matthaeus (d. 1161).

Monasticism and religious orders

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Images about Monasticism and religious orders

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MS.48

Saint Camillus de Lellis comforting patients in hospital. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the front of the hospital. Engraving by J. Redaway, 1820, after F. Nash.

Fra Francesco dal Bosco da Valdobbiadene, detto il castagnaro (1564-1640) e la prattica dell'infermiero / Claudio Bevilacqua.

Platearius, Matthaeus (d. 1161).

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