(1700) The Life Of Messire Benigne Joly - First Publication

The life of MESSIRE BENIGNE JOLY ¹
Priest, Doctor of the Faculty of Paris (…) Canon of the Abbey & Collegiate Church of St. Stephen of Dijon, Instructor of the Hospitaller Sisters of the same City, where he was called: THE FATHER OF THE POOR.
By a Benedictine Monk of the Congregation of St. Maurus ².
IN PARIS, At Loüis GUERIN, rue Saint Jacques, at Saint Thomas Aquinas.
M. DCC.
With Privilege, & Permission of the Superiors.

Very pretty portrait of Benigne Joly in frontispiece, opposite the title page.

Octavo format (13 x 19.5 cm).

Contemporary full leather rigid binding, spine ribbed and blind gilt, morocco title piece with gilt letters. Headcaps present and solid. Slight rubbing of the covers. Corners bumped but solid. Solid spines slightly creased by the devoted reading of this work. Well-sewn notebooks, easy reading.

428 pages + Table of Contents at the end.

Clean and healthy interior, beautiful paper browned by more than 300 years of existence.

Two superb bookplates adorn the opening of the work:
. One from the 18th century is glued on the inside cover: Mr BARBIER DENTRE DEUX MONTS. (Supposedly ennobled by Charles VII in 1430, this family is representative of the nobility of the robe having held several important offices of the duchy including that of Master of Accounts.)
. The second, RICHELOT family, from the 19th century.

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1. Benigne Joly (1644-1694) is a French Catholic priest and writer from Dijon. Sometimes called the “Father of the Poor” or “Saint Vincent de Paul Bourguignon”, Pope Pius IX granted him the title of “Venerable” in 1873.
2. This is Antoine Beaugendre (1628 – 1708).