Monastic lives in the East

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PRINCIPALES VIES DES PERES DES DESERTS D'ORIENT, Avignon, Seguin: 1825, small 8vo, full leather binding, marbled edges. 412 & 496 pp., lacking the first volume. Covers Upper and Lower Thebaid, Nitrian desert, Cells, Scetes, Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Minor Asia, etc. Includes a summary of their spiritual doctrine and monastic discipline by R.P. Michel-Ange Marin of the Order of Minims, Avignon.