La Legende des Flamens : cronique abregee, en laquelle est faict succinct recueil de l'origine des peuples & estatz de Flandres, Arthois, Haynault & Bourgongne, & des guerres par eulx faictes à leurs princes & à leurs voisins : auec plaisante co[m]memoration[n] de plusieurs choses faictes & auenuës en France Angleterre & Alemaigne, depuis sept ou huict cens ans : semblablement y sont traictées les descentes & genealogies des roys de Naples & de Sicille, & des princes & ducz de Milan, & quel droict ont les roys de France aus dictz royaumes & duché.

Accession number

PML 125173

Published

On les vend à Paris ... : En la boutique de Galliot du Pré ..., 1558.

Credit line

Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.

Notes

First published Paris, 1522, under title La lege[n]d des Flame[n]s, Artisiens et Haynuyers. Cf. Grässe, Brunet.
Signatures: ~a⁸, A-T⁸.
Headpieces; initials.
Woodcut printer's device on leaf 152 verso. Cf. Silvestre, L.C. Marques typographiques, 47.

Description

[8], 152 leaves ; 18 cm (8vo)

Inscriptions/Markings

Inscription on verso of lower flyleaf dated "1575 mar[s?]," additional inscription unidentified. Drawing of castle inside upper cover. "Fusaut ci present en Livry et [?] mason estre [?] leur [?]" ; "masso[?]" inscriptions inside upper cover. Unidentified inscriptions inside lower cover.

Provenance

"[Fl?]esarge" inscriptions on upper cover and inside upper and lower covers. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).

Binding

Contemporary limp parchment with yapped fore-edge cover extensions; manuscript on spine (including title); evidence of two pairs of fore-edge ties.

Classification

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