CONVULSIONERS - Dummy collection of 20 items on... Lot 24

[CONVULSIONERS] - Dummy collection of 20 items on the Convulsionaries of Saint-Médard, 1732-1734. In-4, brown calf with slightly rubbed nerves in the back of the back, upper cap missing, lower cap slightly missing, upper hinge split, lower hinge slightly split, blunt corners. Of the twenty pieces, eleven are cited by Kreiser (Miracles, Convulsions, and Ecclesiastical Politics in Early Eighteeth-Century Paris, Princeton 1978). Contains: 1. 17th February 1733 King's order against the alleged convulsive persons. Paris, Impr. Royale, 1733. 3 pp. - 2 Reflections on the King's ordinance of 17 February 1733. S. l., March 6, 1733. 4 pp. KREISER (Bibliography) 415. - (3) Minutes of several doctors and surgeons, drawn up by order of His Majesty, concerning a few allegedly agitated persons of Convulsions. Paris, Vve Mazières and J.-B. Garnier, 1732. (1) f., 17 pp. KREISER, 210-13, 215, 218. This investigation carried out at the request of the Cardinal of Fleury was to lead to the closure of the cemetery. - Letter to a confessor on the duty of doctors and surgeons: on the subject of miracles and convulsions. S. l., 25 March 1733. 8 pp. KREISER (Bibliography) 421. - 5 Extract from a letter of Monsignor the Bishop of Senés on 14 February 1733 (Followed by:) Letter of Dom Leauté, Benedictine, to the Abbot of Asfeld. S. l. n. d. 4 pp. - 6. Letter from M. Petit-Pied, doctor of the house and society of the Sorbonne. To Mr. P... Utrecht, December 27, 1733. 3 pp. - 7. mandate of Monsignor the Bishop of Amiens on the occasion of Mr Devesque and his wife, who had convulsions in Abbeville. 25 January 1732. 3 pp. - 8. test a plan on the work of the convulsions. S. l. n. d. 1 pp. KREISER (Bibliography) 413. - 9. general plan of the work of the convulsions, with reflections of a layman, in refutation of the Answer that the Abbot of L. made to this plan . S. l., 1733. (2) ff. 76 pp., (1) f. KREISER (Bibliography) 415. - 10. [DE LAN, Fr.-H.] - Answer to