Convent of St Agnes, Emmerich

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The Convent of St Agnes, Emmerich, was founded in 1419 as a house of Sisters of the Common Life but by the middle of the fifteenth century it had become a monastic community (Windesheim Congregation).[1] The convent of St Ursula in nearby Niederelten was incorporating into the convent of St Agnes in the seventeenth century.[2] The community appears to have gone out of existence in the early nineteenth century as a result of the secularisation of religious houses.

Shelfmark W2/X-6-11
Paulus Diaconus. Homeliae: seu mauis, sermones siue conciones ad populum, prastantissimorum ecclesiae doctorum, Hieronymi, Augustini, Ambrosij, Gregorij, ... aliorum. Cologne: 1525. (VD16 ZV 12243)
Inscription (16c) on front pastedown: Dyt boeck hefft gegeu[en] de[me] Coue[n]t tho nederelten (?) dye vrom[m]e ind voirsichtige Jonckvrow Stijnken (?) Kispe[n]ninghes (?) voir en Testament.
Inscription (16c) on front pastedown: Ex libris conue[n]t[us] S. Agnetis Embr.
Inscription (16c) on final recto: Liber conuentus Stae Agnetis Embricensis
References
  1. ↑ Anne Winston-Allen, Convent Chronicles: Women Writing About Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages (2004)
  2. ↑ Martina B. Klug, Armut und Arbeit in der Devotio moderna. Studien zum Leben der Schwestern in niederrheinischen Gemeinschaften (2005), p. 122
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