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Relation de ce qvi s'est passe' en la Novvelle France en l'anneé 1636, enuoyée au R. Pere Provincial de la Compagnie de Iesvs en la Prouince de France

Le Jeune, Paul, 1592-1664, Bell, James F. (bookplate), Jesuits. Letters from missions (North America) · 1637 · Paris, S. Cramoisy, imprimeur ordinaire du Roy · 7 pictures

A 1637 Jesuit mission report by Paul Le Jeune, printed in Paris by S. Cramoisy, describing events in New France in 1636 and addressed to the Provincial of the Jesuits in France. The pictures are small woodcut typographic ornaments: a decorated initial I, two decorated initial M's with foliage and a figure, and a horizontal foliate border with a central mask, all in heavy black line on cream paper. A designer could draw on their dense, carved leaf scrolls and framed capital letters for historical ornament.

Jesuits · Indians of North America

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