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Le tableau de la croix : representé dans les ceremonies de la Ste. Messe ensemble la tresor de la devotion aux soufrances de N[ot]re. S[eigneur] I[esus] C[hrist], le tout enrichi de belles figures.

Accession number
PML 126151
Published
A Paris, Chez F. Mazot ..., 1651 [i.e. 1652?]
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman; 1995.
Notes
Engraved throughout. Thirty-five plates on the left-hand page depict moments in the celebration of the mass, with appropriate scenes from the life of Christ above a band of clouds, Latin captions at head and French captions at foot. Right-hand pages have prayers in Latin and French, with standing saints at right and left and flowers at foot. Folllowed by four pages of prayers; the pentitential psalms found in some copies are absent.
Title page and first litany signed: J. Collin. Dedication port. signed: G. de Geijn. Second page of last sequence signed: I. Durant.
Printing privilege not present.
Description
[6], 35 [i.e. 71], 36-39, [4] p. : ill., ports. ; 15 cm
Provenance
Collection of E. Clark Stillman.
Binding
Red stamped in gilt on front, back, spine and edges. All edges gilt. Red morocco doublures onlaid with purple and green, all stamped in gilt.
Classification
Department