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L'Heptameron des nouuelles de tresillustre et tresexcellente princesse Marguerite de Valois, royne de Nauarre : remis en son vray ordre, confus au parauant en sa premiere impression & dedié à tresillustre & tresvertueuse princesse Ieanne, royne de Nauarre / par Claude Gruget Parisien.

Accession number
Heineman 199
Creator
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.
Published
Paris : Gilles Robinot, 1560.
Credit line
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Notes
"Imprimé à Paris, par Benoist Preuost ... 1560"--Colophon.
Signatures: ã⁴ a-z⁴ A-2G⁴.
The third, but second complete edition.
Tipped in: a borrower's receipt for a MS of the Heptameron, no. 382 in the library at Orléans, dated 30 September, 1833, signed by Monmerqué; MS of the eleventh tale of the second day (not included in this ed.) copied from the Orléans manuscript by Monmerqué (?), MS variant of the tale on leaf 94.
Title within ornamental border.
Description
[8], 212, [2] leaves ; 24 cm (4to)
Provenance
Dannie and Hettie Heineman.
Binding
Blue morocco, by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
Classification
Department