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Au roy du soing que Sa Maieste doit auoir de la conseruation de sa vie.

1603 · Amsterdam, 1603 · 2 pictures

A 1603 French-language pamphlet printed in Amsterdam, catalogued under Jesuits and held by the Newberry Library, apparently a political or polemical text addressed to the king about protecting his life. The two pictures are a printer's ornament and a library bookplate, so the record offers little about the book's contents or intended readers. The dense symmetrical strapwork ornament, built from repeated scrolls and foliate motifs in a block-printed style, suggests a designer could borrow its modular repeat for border or pattern work, while the bookplate shows a bust in an oval frame lettered with the library name.

Jesuits

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