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![[picture: front cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Caussin-HolyCourt/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-322x500.jpg "[picture: front cover]")
Some scans from “The Holy Court in Five Tomes, The First, Treating of Motives, Which should excite men of Quality to Christian Perfection; the Second, Of the Prelate, Soldiers, Sates-men and Lady, The Third, of Maxims of Chritianity against prophanesse, [etc.]”, by Nicholas Caussin, and translated into English some time I think between 1650 and 1660.
There is a hand-written note in my copy:
“This book properly belongeth to Doctor Jaspar ovfrile (?) priest of Limerick who haue bought it for 41s. and 4.d. the first day of August, 1668.”
I in turn bought the book from J. Geoffrey Aspin of Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye, on the England/Wales border, I think in 1989. The text and images are long out of copyright.
A biography of Nicholas Caussin.
Title: The Holy Court
Date: 1663
Total items: 15
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Holy Court Book decorated leather spine]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Caussin-HolyCourt/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-5-spine-q90-32x200.jpg "[picture: Holy Court Book decorated leather spine]"){kind=small}
Holy Court Book decorated leather spine
It’s an antique! This leather-bound book was produced in 1663, although it has for sure been rebound more than once in the meantime. Here is the spine of [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Daniel]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Caussin-HolyCourt/wm/big/759-Daniel-q85-158x200.jpg "[picture: Daniel]")
Wood-engraved portrait of Daniel taken from the picture of Daniel and Samuel, in the section entitled The Statesmen, following on from Moses. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Bookplate detail: family crest]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Caussin-HolyCourt/wm/big/000-1-Bookplate-detail-crest-q75-149x200.jpg "[picture: Bookplate detail: family crest]")
Bookplate detail: family crest
The coat of arms from the bookplate. it is surmounted by a dragon’s head, and there is a bird, perhaps a falcon, in the coat of arms itself. This is a detail from the Bookplate image. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title Page, Historical Observations]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Caussin-HolyCourt/wm/big/637-Title-Page-q75-114x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page, Historical Observations]")
Title Page, Historical Observations
This title page occurs maybe three quarters of the way through the book; probably the book was published in separate sections and has been bound into a single volume. I made a separate image for the Crown woodcut on the grounds that you can’t have too many crowns. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Hoy Court leather-bound spine gold decorations]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Caussin-HolyCourt/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-5-spine-detail-five-gold-decorations-q75-153x200.jpg "[picture: Hoy Court leather-bound spine gold decorations]")
Hoy Court leather-bound spine gold decorations
Detail from the spine of the book (the back edge with the writing on it): I collected the five hand-tooled gold decorations together. [more...] [$]
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