Tablature spirituelle des offices & officiers de la couronne de Jesus, couchez sur l'etat Roîal de sa créche, & payez sur l'épargne de l'etable de Bethléem. Reduits en petits exercices [...]. Par un père de l'ordre S. François. Nouvelle édition.

Oblong 16mo, 7,8 x 10,5 cm: [32]-156-[3] pp. (some toning and marginal dampstaining).

Contemp. vellum (sl. stained), spine with 3 raised bands, spr. edges.

Very rare later ed. of a collection of devotional exercises (1st publ. 1619 or 1621). Dedicated to the "vénérables religieuses de saincte Elizabeth du Tiers Ordre S. François du devot monastère de nostre Dame de Nazareth à Paris". It is a collection of "billets" meant to be cut and hand out on Christmas Eve. Printed within border of type ornaments. Each leaf with prayers on recto side and 3 considerations on verso side. With 23 pp. explaining how to "play" or distribute the billets.
Ref. BnF (1). - Bibl. clérico-galante (1879) p. 163.