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Religious costumes. Edict du Roy, portant reglement des habits : avec défenses à tous ses sujects d'us sur iceux d'or, argent, fin ou faux, broderies, passemens de Milan, & façon de Milan, mesmes de faire en leurs maisons aucunes doreures, sur les peines contenuës. Paris, Morel & Mettayer, 1613. Small 13 pp. in-8 (15.8 x 9.5 cm), brown marbled paper bradel, gilt title throughout (modern binding). Very rare sumptuary ordinance from Louis XIII enjoining "all church people to continue in the future, as they do at present, to dress in modest, decent & suitable clothes for their profession, & to all our other subjects to abstain from all superfluity, to which they have allowed themselves to be carried away in the past". Offenders risked a fine of 1,500 livres, divided equally between the King, the poor and the informer... The edict also lists exceptions, notably for belts, scabbards and equestrian equipment. Brown morocco bookplate on upper flyleaf. A fine copy.

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Religious costumes. Edict du Roy, portant reglement des habits : avec défenses à tous ses sujects d'us sur iceux d'or, argent, fin ou faux, broderies, passemens de Milan, & façon de Milan, mesmes de faire en leurs maisons aucunes doreures, sur les peines contenuës. Paris, Morel & Mettayer, 1613. Small 13 pp. in-8 (15.8 x 9.5 cm), brown marbled paper bradel, gilt title throughout (modern binding). Very rare sumptuary ordinance from Louis XIII enjoining "all church people to continue in the future, as they do at present, to dress in modest, decent & suitable clothes for their profession, & to all our other subjects to abstain from all superfluity, to which they have allowed themselves to be carried away in the past". Offenders risked a fine of 1,500 livres, divided equally between the King, the poor and the informer... The edict also lists exceptions, notably for belts, scabbards and equestrian equipment. Brown morocco bookplate on upper flyleaf. A fine copy.

Estimate 900 - 1 100 EUR

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