Religious Manuscript Book "Diurnum Pietatis Christianae Exercitium", Year 1771.

Original manuscript from 1771. This is the unique original manuscript of "Pietatis Diurnum Exercitium Christianae." It was written in Latin and has been kept in a great way of conservation. It consists of 73 leaves written on both sides. The text is enmarked with a beautiful frame and culs-de-lampe. With thirteen beautiful original drawings in pen and watercolour, sometimes occupying half of the pages, in sometimes the entire page, decorated with floral trimmings. It is not certain whether all this important graphic work has been performed by Ignaz Sebastián Klauber under the name of Katharina Klauber or by some anonymous who follows his unmistakeable style. Ignaz Sebastian Klauber (1753, Augsburg - 1817, St. Petersburg) was the most famous member of a well-known family of writers and editors of Fine Arts in Augsburg, Germany. He first studied with his father, later, he went to Rome and then to Paris to study with Johann Georg Wille. He was accepted into the Academy of Paris and shortly thereafter became Graveur du Roi, but returned to Augsburg; during the French Revolution he moved to Nuremberg and finally, in 1796, St. Petersburg, where he became the recorder of the court and the director of the Academy of recorders. He probably died in St. Petersburg. On the other hand, the article presents a binding in dark brown, and Golden cuts. The leaves do not show any sign of deterioration, moisture, or oxidation. This concrete book is entrusted to Saint Joan Nepomuceno (1340-1393), canonized in 1729 by Pope Benedict XIII. It is the patron saint of Bohemia. According to the legend, he was Queen of Bohemias confessor and refused to break the vow of secrecy of confession. Juan Nepomuceno was the first saint to receive martyrdom to save the secret of confession, he is considered the protector against slander and because of his dead, he became the protector against flooding.Size: 21 cm high, 14 cm wide and 2.2 cm thick