Schmid,J.

Grapes of Holiness out of the Villages of Wickedness Or Strange Conversions of All Kinds of Murderers, Robbers, Sorcerers, Also Many Evildoers or Maleficents Condemned to Death.... Together with a white for the pastors to lead the poor sinners to a good death. 3 parts in 1 vol. Augsburg, Heiß für Strötter 1738. cl.4°. With gest. Front. 17 pp, 150 pp, 6 pp, 183 pp, 1 pp, 101 pp, 1 pp. - ╔Bound: Ders.╗, The little people despised by the world, Pleasing to God, That is Unterschldliche Geschichten von allerhand Heiligen Gerichts-Dienern, Schörganten, Kercker-Hütter, und Wächter.... Likewise all sorts of holy Scharpff-judges, and Henckers-servants.... 2 parts in 1 vol. Augsburg, Wachter for Strötter 1738. with gest. Front. 15 fol., 58, 48 p., 3 fol. printed boards of d. Zt. with ribbon. I. Cf. for the 2nd edition: De Backer-S. V, 668, 5. Jantz 2235. Kistner-S. 886: "The Tyrolean Jesuit priest knows how to tell very vividly and popularly, he swells the old legends and stories of murderers, highwaymen and other criminals, who eventually became martyrs or even saints, with all the means of baroque descriptive art to 56 entertaining stories. He is particularly fond of telling of black artists and sorcerers (such as St. Marcellus and Apuleius, disciples of Simon Magus, St. Anastasia, St. Athanasius, St. Cyprian, etc.), and of the salvation of criminals through the intercessions of the Blessed Virgin, St. Catherine of Siena, and of other astonishing conversions of "all sorts of evil-doers. II Cf. for the 2nd ed.: De Backer-S. V, 669, 8. Jantz 2236. Kistner-S. 887. - Contains narratives similar to the pref. Contains narratives similar to the work before, dedicated to St. Apollinaris. - Good copy, inside cover with handwritten ownership inscription. Ownership inscription, dat. 1738.