Schoolboy’s handbook from the Congregatio Mariana in Vienna. No U.S. copies.

Adolescens Mariano-Academicus. Suis in legibus Pie Institutus sive Methodus actiones quotidianas bene et fructuose obeundi: Sanctorum adolescentum exemplis illustrata, et selectis orationibus instructa. Viennae Austriae: Typis Mariae Theresiae Voigtin, Viduae, Univ. Typ. 1736. 12mo [12.6 x 7.4 cm], [1] f., 242 pp., [2] ff., with woodcut initial and woodcut tailpiece. Bound in contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, elaborately gold-tooled boards, marbled pastedowns, all edges gilt. Spine and boards with edgewear. Toning in some quires, occasional staining, occasional spotting, without initial blank, title and f. I1 loosening, minor edge wear.
 
 
Rare 1736 handbook for schoolboys of the Congregatio Mariana in Vienna, here in the edition printed by Maria Theresa Voigtin (active 1723-39), widow of the printer to Vienna University. The work addresses students in the imperative or second person, providing rules and advice about comportment during daily routines of study and prayer. In addition to information on mass, confession, offices, etc., Adolescens Mariano-Academicus treats the topics of waking up, meditation, reading (“studia litteraria”) with point-by-point advice about how to write, rules for behavior at “scola” or classroom study (e.g., do not strut around like a peacock, do not throw stones, no laughing, talking, or singing), how to take lunch and dinner at the dining hall (“mensa”) and how to do household chores (“domestica occupatio”).
 
The Sodality of Our Lady (Congregationes seu sodalitates B. Mariae Virginis) was formed in 1560s by Jesuits at the Collegio Romano as an institution devoted to the education of young boys (O’Malley, pp. 192-199) and later expanded to serve other elements of society. Today material relating to the sodality’s early educational mission is rare.
 
 
OCLC and KVK locate one copy worldwide of this 1736 Vienna edition (Dominican Library in Znojmo). Other editions of Adolescens Mariano-Academicus are located in 1 copy each, none of which are in the U.S. (Jo. Georgii Schlegel, [1707]; Kaliwoda, 1739 and 1746; and Joseph Kurtzböck, 1760; all Vienna imprints).
 
*Philipp Löffler, Die Marianischen Kongregationen in ihrem Wesen und ihrer Geschichte; Elder Mullan, The Sodality of Our Lady Studied in the Documents; J. W. O’Malley, The First Jesuits.