Pensées (doctrines de la sainte foy chretienne)

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Title: Pensées (doctrines de la sainte foy chretienne)
Alternate Title: Pour aymer Dieu et son prochain
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Catholic Church
Häusler, Nicolas C., papermaker
Date Issued: 1520/1539
Region: Switzerland?
City: Basel?
Coordinates: 44° 34′ N, 7° 36′ E
Type of Resource: Manuscript book
Language: Middle French, 1400-1600
Genre: Devotional literature
Physical Description: 144 unfoliated leaves: paper, 15.5 x 20.2 cm
Script: Upright gothic cursiva
Decoration: Pen flourished in top borders
Topic: Religion
Subject: French language--Foreign countries
Christian ethics
Meditations
Devotional literature, French
Note(s): Unsigned and undated manuscript; Nineteenth-century half-binding in dark brown calf and green cloth over boards; Gold-stamped spine title "Pensees. MS"
Repository: The Newberry Library
Call Number: Newberry VAULT Case MS 5243
Provenance: Walter, James, ca. 1627-8, former owner
Digital Image Rights Holder: The Newberry Library
Reading Difficulty: Introductory
Time Period: 1500-1549