PRAYER SHEET

Charles, Saint, Borromeo: San Carlos Borromeo, dedica al angel de la guardia la siguiente oracion. n.pl. [Madrid?] n.d. [c.1670?]

Seventeenth-century devotional broadside comprising a prayer of Saint Charles Borromeo to his guardian angel, presented here in Spanish.

The content is very much death-focused - the sometime archbishop of Milan (1538-1584; canonised 1610) asks for a sense of Christ's suffering on the Cross; and asks that the angel support him at his moment of death, and that afterwards he present him to Christ.

Details

1 leaf, folio, text on recto within woodcut decorative triple-border, small woodcut decorations above title comprising cross within parenthesis-signs, flanked by small woodcut hands. Some staining, particularly to top right-hand corner, which is frayed in blank and has a small hole in woodcut border. Bound in modern blue marbled wrappers.

Not in Palau. Not in CCPB.