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(MONASTIC RULES.) Stellart, Prosper. Fundamina et regulae omnium ordinum monasticorum et militarium. [16], 660, [28] pages. 4to, 203x152 mm, later 17th-/early 18th-century calf gilt with arms of Charles Le Goux de la Berchère (1647-1719; Olivier 2334), rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, endpapers conspicuously renewed; occasional browning, light dampstaining in upper and lower inner corners through most of volume, title soiled, with signature of René-François de Beauvau du Rivau (1664-1739), Archbishop of Narbonne. Douai: Balthasar Beller, 1626
first edition of a compilation of the Rules of SS. Pachomius, Basil, Augustine, Caesarius, Benedict, Francis of Assisi, Francis of Paola, the Trinitarian, Carmelite, and Jesuit orders, and the Knights Templar, prefaced by a historical survey of monasticism.
