Münsterschwarzach, Bavaria

Benedictine abbey of Schwarzach, Franconia, extensively rebuilt in the eighteenth century, dissolved at the secularisation of religious houses in 1803/4.

Shelfmark W/A-5-11

Mario Guarnacci. Vitae, et res gestae pontificum Romanorum et ... cardinalium a Clemente X. usque ad Clementem XII. ... Perducitur ad nostra haec tempora historia corundem ab Alphonso Ciacconio.
Rome: 1751.

Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Comparavit Monasterio Schwarzarensi, ord. S. Bened. In franconia Anno 1753 Christoph Abb.

Printed bookseller's label on front pastedown: Leipzig, T.O. Weigel.

Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: S. Bennert[..]a.

Purchased in 1753 for the Benedictine abbey of Münsterschwarzach, Bavaria, under Abbot Christophorus Balbus (1702–1766), abbot from 1742 to 1761.