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DESLYONS, Jean - Traitez singuliers et nouveaux contre le pa…
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112
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DESLYONS, Jean - Traitez singuliers et nouveaux contre le pa…
See original version (French)
Estimate €400
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Description
DESLYONS, Jean - Traitez singuliers et nouveaux contre le paganisme du Roy-Boit. Le I. Du Jeusne ancien de l'Église Catholique la Veille des Roys. II. De la Royauté des Saturnales remise et contrefaite par les chrestiens charnels en cette feste. III. De la superstition du Phoebé, ou la sottise du Febué. Paris, Veuve C. Savreux, 1670. in-12, (27) ff. 346 pp. yellowed paper, 18th c. lemon morocco, triple gilt thread on covers, spine ribbed, gilt tr.
VICAIRE 272. OBERLÉ (Fastes de Bacchus) 496. DINAUX (Sociétés badines) I, 320. First edition. The author was a doctor of Sorbonne and dean of Senlis cathedral. In the first part, he establishes, according to ancient ecclesiastical authors, that the eve of Epiphany, like the vigils of other feasts, was devoted to prayer and fasting, and not to joy and banquets. The second part seeks to establish that the royalty of the feast day is an imitation of the saturnalia, a proposition supported by passages borrowed from Horace, Juvenal, Martial, Macrobius, etc. A rather curious extract is found here. It comes from research into the ceremonies of the royal chapel by Pirot, who was chaplain to several of our kings from Charles IX to Louis XIII (Dinaux).
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