Convent of St Ursula, Niederelten

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The Convent of St Ursula, Niederelten (Neder Elten) near Emmerich was founded in 1427.[1] It was incorporated into the convent of St Agnes in Emmerich in the seventeenth century.[2]

The Chapter Library has a book which had been given to the convent in the mid-to-late sixteenth century by Stijnken Kispenninghe (Christina Kispenning).

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. ↑ Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (1844), p. 90
  2. ↑ Martina B. Klug, Armut und Arbeit in der Devotio moderna. Studien zum Leben der Schwestern in niederrheinischen Gemeinschaften (2005), p. 122