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La vraye et entiere histoire des trovbles et gverres civiles, advenves de nostre temps, pour le faict de la religion, tant en France qu'en Flandres...

Accession number
PML 125248
Creator
Le Frère, Jean.
Published
Paris, Chez Guillaume de la Nouë, 1584.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Printer's device on t.p.
Description
[40], 595 l. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
"Super aspîdem et Basilic[um] ambulabis" inscription on first flyleaf, with unidentified ciphers. Unidentified ciphers on title page. "Mon Dieu soyez mon jesus et jesus soyez mon Sauveur" ;"Monsieur Ser[?]" ; "Images" ; "a ma patien" inscriptions on verso of lower flyleaf. Unidentified inscription inside lower cover, heavily obscured.
Provenance
"[T?]illet" inscription on verso of lower flyleaf, with cipher. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary limp parchment; manuscript waste; manuscript title on spine; evidence of two pairs of fore-edge ties; sewing structure visible.
Classification
Department