Memorials of human superstition ; being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne ... / By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne.
- Jean-Louis de Lolme
- Date:
- M DCC LXXXIV
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Credit: Memorials of human superstition ; being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne ... / By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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