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La gloire de s. Vrsule diuisee en deux parties. : La premiere contient l'histoire & martyre des onze mille vierges, auec quelques considerations là dessus. La deuxieme est vn abregé de la vie d'aucunes filles de s. Vrsule, signalées en sainteté.

Villebois, Pierre · 1656 · A Valentiennes, : de l'imprimerie de Iean Boucher, au. nom de Iesus. · 2 pictures

A 1656 devotional book printed in Valenciennes by Jean Boucher, written by Pierre Villebois for the Ursuline community, recounting the martyrdom of Saint Ursula and her eleven thousand virgins. The pictures are small printed ornaments: a decorated initial letter with interlaced scrollwork and a woodcut emblem of the IHS monogram within a radiating sunburst flanked by two angels, offering a designer models of early modern ecclesiastical border and headpiece decoration.

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