Manuscript by Anna Huppenbergerin. With 21 interleaved engravings.

[Manuscript] / [Women] / Anna Huppenbergerin. Geistliches Gebett Buch Darin zu fünden seind Morgen, Abend, Meeß Beicht und Communion Gebetter … Endet mit dem heiligen Creuz-Weeg. S.l. [Southern Germany]: written by Anna Huppenbergerin, 1783. 12mo [12.2 x 8.1 cm], [1] f. title, 253 pp., [6] ff., [5] ff. blanks, interleaved with [6] ff. full-page engravings, and with complete suite of ‘Stations of the Cross’ engravings comprising [1] full-page engraved title and XIV full-page engravings, manuscript in red and black. Bound in contemporary calf over wood boards, spine and boards blind ruled, formerly with pins and clasps, marbled pastedowns, red edges. Small losses and separation at extremities of spine, minor rubbing to boards. Internally quite clean, neatly written in one hand and legible throughout.
$2450
 
 
Manuscript prayer book written out in 1783 by a certain Anna Huppenbergerin. On the title page, she gives her initials “A. 1783 H.,” and at the end she provides her full name with the location, “In Mintzin,” which perhaps is München (Munich).
 
Added to the book (interleaved) is a full set of 15 very rare ‘Stations of the Cross’ (“Creuzweeg”) engravings. The suite’s engraved title page depicts the Instruments of the Passion (or ‘Arma Christi’) and carries an address of a Munich bookbinder, which reads “München zu finden beÿ Joseph Krinner Buchbinder 1780.” Krinner’s name is known from the early 1760s.
 
Bound in are a further 6 stipple engravings depicting the nun Maria Crescentia Höss of Kaufbeuren (1682-1744), an Annunciation, a Crucifixion, Francis Xavier, a Memento Mori with the Christ Child, and the Infant Christ statue kept by the Carmelite friars of Prague. Four of these are signed by the Augsburg engraver Johann Georg Remmele (active second half of 18th century), and the other two are of the same style and likely also his work. 
 
I have been unable to locate any information about Anna Huppenbergerin (likely “Hubbenberger”). Her book contains prayers for the morning, evening, mass, confession, communion, “the sweet name of Jesus,” the Sorrows of Christ, the Holy Wounds, a prayer to be said in front of an image of Mary, the Three Magi, various indulgenced prayers, etc. The last part of the book is devoted the Stations of the Cross.
 
The engravings are extremely rare (no U.S. copies according to OCLC and KVK) or unrecorded. It is known that in 1785 Johann Baptist Oettl of Munich used the Joseph Krinner ‘Stations of the Cross’ engravings in his edition of Heilige Wallfahrt, das ist andächtige Besuchung des schmerzhaften Kreuzweges, but I have located no institutional copies of that title.