The Stabat Mater Speciosa and the Stabat Mater Dolorosa In exceptionally good condition

Boston: D. Lothrop & Company,, 1886. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt and ebony -embossed orchre-colouredcloth sans dust jacket, pp. 38. Illustrated with frontis and 5 photogravures of relivent Old Master Paintings. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Stabat Mater Dolorosa is thought to originate from Franciscan sources in the 13th century. The reason for this conclusion is found in the striking parallels to the mysticism of St.Francis of Assisi, which has as one of the central points the immersion of the believer in the sufferings of the Lord. In the Stabat Mater, the believer rests together with Mary before the crucified Jesus. The monk Jacopone da Todi (ca. 1228-1306), Pope Innocentius III (ca. 1160-1216), and the saint Bonaventura (died 1274) are named as the most probable poet, but also the Popes Gregorius and John XII and Bernhard of Clairveaux (died 1135) are mentioned. In an old booklet about mediaeval Dutch translations of the Stabat Mater I found another theory. The German musicologist C. Blume thought that possibly the English monk John Pecham, who stayed in France until 1270, might be the author.