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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.
Wood-engraved portrait of Samuel taken from the picture of Daniel and Samuel, in the section entitled The Statesmen, following on from Moses. [more...] [$]
Holy Court Book decorated leather spine
It’s an antique! This leather-bound book was produced in 1663, although it has for sure been rebound more than once in the meantime. Here is the spine of [...] [more...] [$]
Portraits of Samuel and Daniel
These two portraits were made on a single plate (probably a woodcut or wood engraving); no source is given for the likenesses (or possibly unlikenesses) of these two characters [...]The Statesmen which also includes Moses. [more...] [$]
Wood-engraved portrait of Daniel taken from the picture of Daniel and Samuel, in the section entitled The Statesmen, following on from Moses. [more...] [$]
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...] [$]
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