vies des saints pour tous les jours de l'année
Subtitle: avec de courtes reflexions morales à la fin de chaque vie
By: par le R. Pere Jean Croiset, de la Compagnie de Jesus.
Contributors: Poilly, François de, 1623-1693, engraver.; Scotin, Jean-Baptiste, b. 1678, engraver.; Frères Bruyset,; Jesuit Residence of Strasbourg (France),; Bibliothèque des Fontaines.
Edition: Seconde édition, revuë et corrigée
Publisher: chez les Freres Bruyset, ruë Merciere, au Soleil, & à la Croix d'or
Published: 1731
Place of publication: A Lyon
Language: fre
Subjects: Meditations -- Early works to 1800.; Christian saints -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Vies des saints
Notes: Collation: fol.: v.1: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ õ⁴ ũ⁴ 2ã⁴ A-5C⁴ 5D² [$3 (-ã1, ã2, 3L3) signed]; 406 leaves: p. [blank] [2] [blank] [13] ii-xxx [blank] [2] 2-119 [1] 121-221 [1] 223-337 [1] 339-471 [1] 473-627 [1] 629-760 [3] [blank] (misprinting 666 as 669); v.2: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ ĩ² A-5Q⁴ [$3 (-ã1, ĩ2, 4Y3) signed (missigning 2B3 as C3, 2O2 as O2, 4B2 as 4A2, 5E3 as 5E2)]; 442 leaves: p. [1] [blank] iii-xviii [blank] [1] 1-131 [1] 133-271 [1] 273-413 [1] 415-561 [1] 563-724 [2] 727-859 [5] (misprinting 337 as 237).

Titles in red and black; title vignettes; initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Front. signed: "F. Poilly sc."

Organized by month with each section opening with a plate depicting saints for that month; most signed by F. Poilly, except August: "J.B. Scotin."

Includes indexes.

Backer-Sommervogel, II, 1676

Bibliothèque des Fontaines, purchase,

Burns Library c.1: paper label on front pastedown: "Domus Argentinensis So. Jesu."

Burns Library c.2: paper label on front pastedown: "Ex Bibliotheca Congregationis Sanctissimi Redemptoria Montibus, Armarium."

Burns Library c.2: in manuscript on v.1, leaf ã3 and on v.2, t.p.: "Ex Bibliotheca Congregationis SSmi Redemptoris Montibus."

Burns Library c.1: full leather; gold-tooled spine

Burns Library c.1: lacking v.2, leaf 4Y3 (p. [725]-[726]).

Burns Library c.1: leaf 2L3 misprinted as 2M3, 5Q3 misprinted as 5Q2.

Burns Library c.2: full leather; gold-tooled spine

Burns Library c.2: lacking t.p. (v.1, leaf ã2 (p. [2])).

c.1: 01-27485

c.2: 01-27486