Ordre du SAINT-ESPRIT.
Paris - Imprimerie Royale - 1788
- Format : Fort in-4.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 399 pp.
Full period binding in burgundy morocco. Spine with nerves decorated with a seedling of lily flowers and golden flames and title piece in green morocco. Richly decorated dishes in the centre with the royal coat of arms of Louis XIV surrounded by the orders of Saint-Michel and the Holy Spirit, beautiful golden irons in spandrels representing the dove of the Holy Spirit on a radiant spineground in a baroque floral setting. Frame of golden lace, inner roller and on the cuts. All edges gilt. Printed on large paper, this edition is decorated with an engraved title, 3 vignettes, 3 letters and 8 culs-de-lampe by Sébastien Le Clerc.
It was to gather around him the most powerful houses of the kingdom and to attach the main leaders of the Catholic party, in the midst of a religious war, that Henri III created, in December 1578, a new order of chivalry. Dedicated to the Holy Spirit, in memory of his accession to the thrones of Poland (in 1573), then France (in 1574) on a Pentecost day, the Order became the most famous of the French monarchy. It had 100 members who had to certify three degrees of nobility. It shone brightly under Louis XIV.
Luxurious edition of the statutes of the Order of the Holy Spirit.
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