Histoire veritable, arrivee de nostre temps en la ville de Beauuais : touchant le coniurations et exorcismes faicts à Denise de la Caille, possedée du Diable : auec les actes, & procez verbaux faicts sur les lieux par le commandement de monsieur l'euesque dudit Beauuais : histoire non moins profitable que prodigieuse, remplie d'admirables & estranges effects des demons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Billaine, Pierre, active 1613-1638, bookseller.

Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Arthur H. Lea Library Endowment Fund.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Exorcism--France--Beauvais--Early works to 1800.

Exorcism.

Demoniac possession--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800.

Demoniac possession.

Beauvais (France)--History--Early works to 1800.

Beauvais (France).

France--Beauvais.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Tiersonnier (autograph) (Lea Library copy)

Lambert, Pierre-M. (bookplate) (Lea Library copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 252 pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Histoire veritable, arrivee de nostre temps en la ville de Beavvais

Histoire veritable, arrivée de nostre temps en la ville de Beauvais

Histoire & exorcisme de Denise de la Caille

Fingerprint:

ts,& uiu- o.s, moau (3) 1623 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Pierre Billaine, rue Sainct Iacques, à la bonne Foy, MDCXXIII [1623]

Notes:

Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-P⁸ Q⁶.

Woodcut initial and head-piece.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy has manuscript note ("Conservation Bucquet") on verso of front free endpaper; illegible manuscript inscription at head of title leaf.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Arthur H. Lea Library Endowment Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Lea Library copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books.

Lea Library copy has 18th-century autograph ("Tiersonnier") on front pastedown; bookplate ("Pierre-M. Lambert") on front pastedown.

Lea Library copy bound in full early 18th-century speckled calf; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped red morocco spine label; gold-tooled cover edges; all edges sprinkled red.

Lea Library copy: "a dozen leaves stained, a few corners gone, stamp removed from the title with loss of paper, title mostly backed with old paper"--Bookseller's description.

OCLC:

77698863