Accession number
PML 125089
Creator
Justinus, Marcus Junianus.
Published
Paris : On les vend en la rue neufue Nostre Dame à l'enseigne Sainct Iehan Baptiste, contre Saincte Geneuiefue des Ardens, en la bouticque de Denys Ianot, 1540.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Place of publication from colophon (leaf 271), which reads in part: "Nouuellement translaté de latin en francoys, par maistre Guillaume Michel dict de Tours. Nouuellement imprimé à Paris par Denys Ianot libraire & imprimeur."
Issued also with variant publisher statement on t.p.: "On les vend á Paris en la grand salle du Palais ... par Arnould & Charles les Angeliers." Cf. Mortimer, R. French 16th cent., 333.
Date on t.p. expressed partly in words: Mil cinq cens xl.
The privilege (preliminary leaves 1v-2r), granted to Charles L'Angelier, is dated Nov. 14, 1537; previously printed by Janot for the L'Angelier brothers in a folio edition (1538) under title: Les œuvres de Iustin, vray historiographe, sur les faits et gestes de Troge Pompee.
Numerous errors in foliation, e.g.: nos. 137-156 omitted.
Signatures: a-b⁸ A-2H⁸ 2I⁴.
Illustrations: 154 prints from 51 blocks : woodcut ; image 57 x 55 cm. (1), 39 x 54 mm. (2) and ca. 32 x 52 mm. The largest print (leaf 220v) is signed with a cross of Lorraine; others "represent Janot's general stock, blocks of a considerable range of style"--Mortimer.
Initial spaces, with guide letters.
Issued also with variant publisher statement on t.p.: "On les vend á Paris en la grand salle du Palais ... par Arnould & Charles les Angeliers." Cf. Mortimer, R. French 16th cent., 333.
Date on t.p. expressed partly in words: Mil cinq cens xl.
The privilege (preliminary leaves 1v-2r), granted to Charles L'Angelier, is dated Nov. 14, 1537; previously printed by Janot for the L'Angelier brothers in a folio edition (1538) under title: Les œuvres de Iustin, vray historiographe, sur les faits et gestes de Troge Pompee.
Numerous errors in foliation, e.g.: nos. 137-156 omitted.
Signatures: a-b⁸ A-2H⁸ 2I⁴.
Illustrations: 154 prints from 51 blocks : woodcut ; image 57 x 55 cm. (1), 39 x 54 mm. (2) and ca. 32 x 52 mm. The largest print (leaf 220v) is signed with a cross of Lorraine; others "represent Janot's general stock, blocks of a considerable range of style"--Mortimer.
Initial spaces, with guide letters.
Description
[16], 271 [i.e. 251], [1] leaves : ill. ; 15 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Possible inscription torn out of lower right corner of title page. "Paris avec privilege du roy" partially copied (from title page) several times inside upper cover. Additional copying of phrases inside lower cover.
Provenance
From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cen. France).
Binding
Contemporary leather (sheep or goat) over paperboards, blind tooled; edges colored red; sewing structure visible.
Classification
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