Item #49472 Official Memoirs of the Juridical Examination into the Authenticity of the Miraculous Events which happened at Rome in the Years 1796-7 including the Decree of Approbation , etc. with an account of similar Prodigies which occurred about the same time at Ancona and other places and other places in Italy. Miracles, Giovanni MARCHETTI, Rev. Benedict Rayment.
Official Memoirs of the Juridical Examination into the Authenticity of the Miraculous Events which happened at Rome in the Years 1796-7 including the Decree of Approbation , etc. with an account of similar Prodigies which occurred about the same time at Ancona and other places and other places in Italy.
Official Memoirs of the Juridical Examination into the Authenticity of the Miraculous Events which happened at Rome in the Years 1796-7 including the Decree of Approbation , etc. with an account of similar Prodigies which occurred about the same time at Ancona and other places and other places in Italy.

Official Memoirs of the Juridical Examination into the Authenticity of the Miraculous Events which happened at Rome in the Years 1796-7 including the Decree of Approbation , etc. with an account of similar Prodigies which occurred about the same time at Ancona and other places and other places in Italy.

London: Keating & Co., 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. lxxii + 228pp. Quarter leather: nineteenth century marbled paper boards, tastefully rebacked with with brown calf spine with leather title label, lettered & decorated in gilt. B/w plates (27 engravings on 7 pages - see IMPORTANT note in condition description below). List of Subscribers after title-page. A study of a series of supposedly miraculous occurences involving images of the Virgin Mary which took place in 1776 in Rome and surrounding areas. The Church launched a detailed investigation, interviewing some hundreds of witnesses, and reaching a conclusion that generally affirmed the phenomena. This investigation is summarised and examined in this volume. The events became quite famous, and were dubbed by cynics in England "the winking Madonnas." From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, with his ex-libris seal blind-stamped on the front free endpaper. NOTE: due to a printer's or binder's flaw one of the pages with engravings (that with engravings numbered XIII - XVI) has been omitted, whilst another (that with engravings numbered XXI - XIV) has been duplicated. The page-edges are darkened, but all else about the volume is in lovely condition. Item #49472

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