1634 Abrege Des Views Des Principaux Fondatevrs Des Religions de L'Eglise Representex Dans Le Choevr De L'Abbaie de S Lambert de Liessies En Haynaut Avec Les Maximes Spirituelles de Chaque Fondateur.

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding

With forty illustrations after paintings once held at the Benedictine Abbey of Liessies. The original paintings were either destroyed or sold during the French Revolution. Forty plates total, including engraved title page. All except two plates are portraits of important religious figures such as John the Baptist, the Virgin, Saint Benedict, Saint Waltrude, and Ignatius of Loyola. A selection of biographies regarding the principal founders of the Church. Written by Etienne Binet, a Jesuit author based in France. Collated, complete. In French. With two bookplates. The first bookplate is that of Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The second bookplate belonged to Mary Barbara Hales Hales inherited the family seat of Hales Place, Woodchurch, Kent, following the extinction of the Hales baronetcy circa 1836, and later converted it to a Benedictine nunnery. With notations by a prior owner on the author of this work to the verso of front endpaper. Errata to the final leaf. With the signatures A-2P4, all illustrations are included in register and pagination.