LIFE OF A SCOTTISH CATHOLIC, ILLUMINATED RINUCCINI, Giovanni Battista.
Le capucin Escossois. Histoire merveilleuse, et tres veritable, arrivée de nostre-temps. Traduitte du manuscript Italien de Monseigneur Jean Baptiste Rinuccini, archevesque, et prince de Ferme. Par le R. P. Francois Barraut, procureur general des peres de la doctrine Chrestienne, residant à Rome.
First edition of François Barrault’s French translation of Rinuccini’s biography of the Scottish Catholic convert George Leslie (d. 1637?), a special issue decorated in gold and colour – another example bound and decorated thus, also without the index, is to be found in BM Lyon (with provenance from Jesuit libraries in Jersey, Paris, and Chantilly).
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