An abridgement of the life of St. Anne of Jesus, schooler and companion of St. Teresia of Jesus, of the holy order of our Lady of mount Carmel, [1693].engManuscript on paper, in a single cursive hand, of an English version of Manrique's biography of Sister Ana de Jesus, a companion of St. Teresa of Avila who also founded Carmelite convents in France and the Spanish NetherlandsText includes two poems, identified by the translator as additions to the text: "With this our saint let us to Bethlem goe,/The stable and the manger let us find" (p. 65) and "Thomas a Kempis in thy sacred booke/To find out Jesus Christ the faithfull looke." (p. 67).Approbation of the Bishop of Anvers appears in French preceding the textDone out of French.Inscription on front pastedown: "Henry Bedingfeld."Inscription on title page: " libris Thomae Marwood."Inscription on title page: "The venerable Anne of Jesus was Canoniz'd by Paule ye fifth Pont: Max:."Postscript inscription dated: "February the 14th, 1692/3."Bookplate (front pastedown): Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, Bt.Bookplate (back pastedown): Bryan Hall.Binding: full red morocco, possibly nineteenth-century.