1623 Scarce French Vellum Book - Raison de l'Institut de l'Ordre de Font-Evraud (FONTEVRAUD)
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Author : Unknown.
Title : Raison de l'Institut de l'Ordre de Font-Evraud. Avec la decouverte de son Esprit. Par un religieux du mesme Ordre.
Language : Text in French.
Publisher : A Paris, Chez Rene Giffart, rüe des Carmes, près le Collège de Prelle, 1623. First Edition. Scarce - not in Worldcat nor at the BNF.
Size : 5 " X 3 ".
Pages : 137 pages.
Binding : Very good original full vellum binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover .
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing and staining).
Illustration: Including a very nice full page illustration.
The book : Very Scarce 17th century book on the famous Order of Fontevraud
-- a monastic order successively protected by the Plantagenets and then by the Capetian House of Bourbon, founded in 1101 by Robert d'Arbrissel during the creation of the Abbey of Fontevraud located on the territory of the municipality of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye (Maine-et-Loire). This Book is unknown worldwide in Worldcat and at the BNF...