Courte description des ordres des femmes & filles religieuses. Contenant une petite relation de leur origine, de leur progrés, & de leur confirmation. Avec les figures de leurs habits, gravez
A 1691 French-language account of women's religious orders, published in Amsterdam by Adriaan Schoonebeek for a general readership interested in monastic life. The engravings show nuns in habits of different orders, each standing or kneeling in a stone interior with columns, arches, and draped curtains, with the costume details carefully rendered in fine line hatching that a designer could borrow for period costume or monastic dress studies.
