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Traduction en vers françois des hymnes de monsieur de Santeul, chanoine regulier de S. Victor

Santeul, Jean de, 1630-1697, Saurin, ---- abbé, fl 1691-1699, tr, Montarin, ----, fl 1699 · 1699 · A Paris, Chez la revue Daniel hortemels · 21 pictures

A French verse translation of Latin hymns by Jean de Santeul, a canon regular of Saint-Victor, rendered by the abbé Saurin and Montarin and printed in Paris in 1699 for a devotional readership. Its pictures are small printed ornaments, mostly woodcut floral headpieces and tailpieces, with stylized tulips, roses and urn-shaped vases set in symmetrical compositions a designer could borrow for decorative borders, dividers or heraldic-style emblems.

Hymnes français

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