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Sobota example
Box binding made of goatskin, frog leather, elephant leather, and goat horns. Sobota three-board binding structure covered with brown goatskin, book-box edges covered with orange snakeskin, center of boards with oval cutouts, light goat parchment…
BRA0841
One publishing trend of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was the production of printed Books of Hours. Replacing hand-illuminated manuscripts with moveable type, woodcuts, and interchangeable marginal motifs, printers created a…
BRB0819
This devotional and instructional volume can be read in either of two directions. The rectos of each leaf are numbered and can be read sequentially while the versos are printed upside down and also numbered for reading in a separate order and…
BRB0261
This French calendrical manual features several fold-out plates, three volvelles, twelve sliding paper strips for tracking the weekdays of every month, and the exhibited adjustable table for determining the major moveable feasts. This table utilizes…
BRMS 128
Intended for private devotion, this homemade pin cushion encloses a devotional manuscript featuring eight French prayers or mottos in praise of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. The object consists of two heart-shaped green velvet covers with gold cloth…
BRB0370
This tiny songbook was printed for the use of French pilgrims along the Camino de Santiago. Illustrated throughout with charmingly crude woodcuts, the book contains the texts of numerous chansons. The book also includes various prayers, memorials of…
BRB0819
This unique, previously unrecorded devotional and instructional volume can be read in either of two directions. The rectos of each leaf are numbered and can be read sequentially while the versos are printed upside down and also numbered for reading…
BRE0032
Religious instruction book for children and adults. The frontispiece features an allegorical depiction of Piety rather than the usual Virgin Mary.
BRE0041
Devotional book for French troops that includes paschal calendar, daily prayers, instruction on Christian doctrine and the sacraments, and prayers for the corps and their commanders.
BRB0255
Striking visuals such as human hearts with either Jesus or the devil in them encouraged people to renounce their sins. The symbols in this work influenced the later Miror des ames.
BRE0057
This symbols within this emblem book was influenced by the eighteenth-century Le miroir du pecheur. This title also includes scenes of unrepentant souls at the end of their time on earth.
BRMS 92
Spiritual guide to the Mass with reflections and instructions for prayer and meditations. The end is a French translation of the Latin litany of the Mass. There are six plates by Hieronymus and Anton Wierix included that shows the continued…
Alotta example
Full leather, chocolate goatskin, in a traditional laced-on boards binding. Paste paper ends. Sewn headbands, blind tooling. Leather onlays. Pocket watch with altered face showing authors' name and time at which Fogg arrives at club attached to cover…
Sobota example
Sobota’s box binding structure with doubled boards and a middle opening. Green, blue, and brown goatskin. Application of leather and colored Japanese paper. Hand printing in blue. Gold tooling. Roughly-sewn headbands depict ship ropes.
07069
One of four copies of this French translation of the Imitatio Christi. This edition rearranges the order of the four individual books of the Imitatio Christi and omits the final book, on the Eucharist, which was intended mainly for the clergy.
12138
Copy 207 of 250. Fourteen-color lithographs with French text from the Sainte Bible (1672).
BRE0070
First edition by Nicolas Talon. Images illustrate essential doctrines of Christianity including Ten Commandments and the Sacraments.
BRMS 134
Soeur (Sister) Marie Julie de Saint Paul de Thomassin's commonplace book provides an intimate view of an eighteenth-century nun's values, interests, and activities. It includes general rules for monastic living, short histories of various religious…
BRMS 134
Soeur (Sister) Marie Julie de Saint Paul de Thomassin's commonplace book provides an intimate view of an eighteenth-century nun's values, interests, and activities. It includes general rules for monastic living, short histories of various religious…
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Rythmes-Couleurs
Rythmes-couleurs is illustrated with eleven pochoirs (a refined stenciling technique used for making fine limited editions of stencil prints), including the cover.
BRB0993
Printed book of hours that appears in the style of a contemporary manuscript prayer book.
BRB0914
This folding triptych, known as a cartagloria, bears the essential texts of the Latin Mass that a priest needed to have visible during the Eucharistic ceremony. Complementing the central images of Christ on the Cross and the Last Supper, the…
10776
Dedicated to Louis XIV, this French edition of 1652 was translated from the Brussels manuscript by Heribert Rosweyde. Frontispiece engraved by Daret after Errard.
BRB0764
This catechism was composed for Louis, 18th Dauphin of France (1601-1643), later King Louis XIII (r. 1610-1643).
10695
Copy 75 of 110 and has an original drawing bound into the front. The production of this book took several years to complete due to the detail and complexity of the prints.
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