MONASTERE DE PORT ROYAL - BOUND BY SIMIER.

Les Constitutions du Monastere de Port Royal du S. Sacrement.

A Mons, Chez Gaspard Migeot, 1665.

12mo. (14x8 cm.). Bound by Simier in a typical Simier-binding, full brown calf, gilt spine, gilt borders on covers. (Signed in small gilt letters on spine "Simier. R. du Roi"). Hinges slightly weakening. All edges gilt. Title-page in red/black. (16),528,(2) pp. Internally fine and clean.

First edition. This print is considered an Elzevier-print. On front free endpaper a printed label from the library of Meron=Allen gives references to Willems, 1353, Suppl., 358, Berghman, 319 and Rahir, 1404.

"The abbey (Cistercian nuns) was established in 1204, but became famous when its discipline was reformed in 1609 by its abbess, Mother Marie Angelique Arnauld (1591-1661). The Arnauld family became its patrons and the abbey's subsequent history was directed by a number of the members of that family. In 1625 most of the nuns moved to a new Port-Royal in Paris, which subsequently became Port-Royal de Paris (or, more commonly, Port-Royal) while the older one was known as Port-Royal des Champs ("Port-Royal of the fields"). (Wikipedia).

Order-nr.: 50540