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Excellens discours de I. de L'Espine Angeuin : touchant le repos et contentement de l'esprit. : distinguez en sept liures, auec sommaires & annotations, qui monstrent l'ordre & la suite des discours.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BV4502.L47 E93 1594
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- L'Espine, Jean de, approximately 1506-1597, author.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Christian life--Early works to 1800.
- Christian life.
- Sin--Christianity--Early works to 1800.
- Sin.
- Penn Provenance:
- Stroehlin, Ernest, 1844-1907 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)
- Howard, Albert A., -2017 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 758, [10] pages ; 14 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Excellens discovrs de I. de L'Espine Angevin
- Excellens discours de J. de L'Espine Angevin
- Fingerprint:
- nees u-ur ai'a SiVo (3) 1594 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- A La Rochelle : Par Hierosme Haultain, 1594.
- Notes:
- Signatures: A-Z¹² [2A]¹² [2B]¹² 2C-2I¹² (leaves 2I8-2I12 blanks).
- Gathering [2A] signed "A"; leaf [2B]1 signed "B".
- Woodcut title vignette (bookseller's device), initials, factotums, head- and tail-pieces.
- Printed marginalia.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from The Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Flora E. Haney Fund.
- Kislak Center copy has on front pastedown the bookplate of Gaspard Ernest Stroehlin, depicting his initials ("GES") and motto ("Mente Libera") and the word "Champel" (alluding to the execution site of Michael Servetus?) beneath an illustration of Jean Calvin preaching before the towers of St. Pierre Cathedral, Geneva.
- Kislak Center copy has bookplate ("AHA") of Albert A. Howard on back pastedown
- Kislak Center copy bound by Hans Asper (with his stamp on verso of front free endpaper) in full dark blue morocco; 5 raised bands on spine; author's name, brief title, and imprint date stamped in gold on spine; cover edges double-ruled in gold; gold-tooled turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; red, green and yellow silk marker.
- OCLC:
- 43806243
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