Jean-Baptiste THIERS
Histoire des perruques. Où l'on fait voir leur origine, leur usage, leur forme, l'abus & l'irrégularité de celle des ecclésiastiques
[History of Wigs. Wherein their origin, their use, their form, the abuse, and the irregularity of that of ecclesiastics are shown]
Louis Chambeau|Avignon 1777|11.5 x 18 cm|Broché
Second edition (cf. Quérard IX, 429.).
Our copy remains in the original stitching, in temporary wrappers showing numerous losses and a cracked backstrip; the margins of some leaves are browned and bear small chips.
The work deals exclusively with the canonical prohibition on clergy wearing wigs; one section is devoted to liturgical and extra-liturgical headgear: birettas, mitres, almuces, hoods, camails, amices, caps, and skullcaps.
Abbot Jean-Baptiste Thiers (1636–1703) was among the most original and learned theologians of the seventeenth century; throughout his life he opposed superstition and the misuse of religious practices.
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