Historical and geographical description of Formosa
Description:
A fabrication. The author's real name is unknown. -Dict. nat'l biog., 1949, vol. 16, p. 439-442., From the library of Herman W. Liebert., and Signatures: *¹² 2*¹⁰ A-R¹² S1.
Publisher:
Chez Pierre Mortier & Compagnie,
Subject (Geographic):
Taiwan--Description and travel--Fiction--Early works to 1800.
Dieu et les hommes is also published under the pseud., docteur Obern, translated by Jacques Aimon, pseud. and Published also v.7 of L'evangile du jour.
Manuscript in a single hand of a series of Convulsionist meditations written while the author was in devotions at the foot of a crucifix. The meditations are often repetitive and concern the merit of suffering along with Christ; the justice, mercy, and love of God; and the value of ecstatic and convulsive experiences during prayer.
Description:
"Frère Pierre" has been identified as the pen name of Pierre Olivier Pinault, the jurist and Jansenist who wrote Histoire abrégée de la derniere persécution de Port Royal (Paris, 1758)., Binding: 18th-century full mottled calf, rebacked; spine lettered in gilt; silk book ribbon markers bound in., In French., Purchased from Justin Croft on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009., and The Convulsionists, or Convulsionaires, were part of the Jansenist movement that rejected the papal bull Unigenitus after 1713. Their public and private devotions were marked by ecstatic convulsions and spasms, indifference to physical pain while in trace, occasional speaking in tongues, and claims of miraculous cures.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Pinault, Pierre Olivier,--d. 1790
Subject (Topic):
Convulsionaries, Devotional literature, French--Early works to 1800, Jansenists, and Meditations--Early works to 1800
Emblemes sacrez svr le tres-saint et tres-adorable sacrement de l'evcharistie and Orpheus eucharisticus. French
Description:
"Acheué d'imprimer pour la premiere fois le 20. Ianuier 1666"--Colophon., Binding: green morocco, with interior dentelles., Chesneau identified as author in censors' permission and in privilege. His Orpheus eucharisticus (published by Lambert in 1657) was translated into French and shortened by Augustin Lubin., Signatures: pi² [dagger]⁴ A-M⁸ N⁶., and The "embleme dedicatoire" and 100 numbered emblems were etched by Albert Flamen. Cf. Landwehr.
Publisher:
Chez Florentin Lambert ...,
Subject (Name):
Flamen, Albert, active 17th century., Lambert, Florentin, -1693 or 1694, printer., and Lubin, Augustin, 1624-1695.
Subject (Topic):
Christian ethics--Early works to 1800. and Emblems--Early works to 1800.