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La vie des troys Maries, de leur mere, de leurs enfans, et de leurs marys / nouuellement corrigee par ung venerable docteur en theologie.

Accession number
PML 195797
Creator
Venette, Jean ?1307-?1370.
Published
Lyon : Pierre de Sainte Lucie, 6 July 1534.
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2012.
Notes
Composed in verse about 1360 and put in modern prose by Jean Drouyn in the late 1470s, this narrative was first printed in 1511. It quickly passed into popular literature, and by the early 17th century formed part of the Bibliothèque bleue.
Imprint from colophon.
This edition not recorded by Bechtel, Baudrier or Gültlingen. The woodcuts were previously used in the editions printed by Claude Nourry, whose widow married Pierre de Sainte Lucie.
Imperfect: title page, second leaf and last leaf torn with loss of text.
Description
[88] leaves : woodcuts ; 23 cm. (4to)
Binding
Limp vellum, probably a remboîtage.
Classification
Department