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Title

Valere le Gra[n]t hystoriographe tresillustre translate de latin en francoys : contenant neuf liures traictans des vertueuses oeuures non seullement des rommains, mais aussi de gens destrange nacion, comme de grecs, de gens dorient et doccident, et autres parties de la terre ...

Author

Valerius Maximus.

Publication

On les vend a Paris : Par Philippe Le Noir relieur iure en luniuersite de Paris a lenseigne de la Rose blanche couronnee en la rue Sainct Jacques, [ca. 1524]

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Additional Authors

• Hesdin, Simon de, active 14th century.
• Nicolas, de Gonesse, active 15th century.
• Tory, Geoffroy, approximately 1480-approximately 1533.
• Salmon, Gabriel.
• Woeiriot, Jacquemin.
• Le Noir, Philippe.

Description

[608] p. : ill.; 28 cm. (fol.)

Uniform Title

Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX. French (Old French)

Alternative Title

Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX.

Subjects

• Rome > Social life and customs > Anecdotes > Early works to 1800
• Rome > Civilization > Anecdotes > Early works to 1800
• Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
• Goldschmidt, Emil B > Provenance

Note

• Title page printed in black and red.
• Translation of Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX, with additions and commentary, begun (ca. 1377) by Simon de Hesdin and completed (1401) by Nicolas de Gonesse. Cf. leaves o5v, 2F6r.
• Based on the ed. published by Antoine Vérard (Paris, 1499 or 1500). Cf. Moreau.
• Moreau gives date of publication as ca. 1524 on the basis of the t.p. border and printer's mark. Philippe Le Noir was active 1522-1544. Cf. Renouard, P. Répertoire des imprimeurs parisiens. 1965. p. 266-267.
• Signatures: a-z⁶ [et]⁴ A-X⁶ 2A-2F⁶.
• Illustrations: 10 prints : woodcut ; full-page (2) or smaller. On leaves a1v, h6r, o6r, t6r, [et]3r, A1r, E5v, I3r, O2r, V1v. Cut on leaf h6r repeated from Le Noir's ed. of Pierre Gringoire's Le blazon des héretiques (1524); signed with a monogram (GS surmounted by a cross of Lorraine) interpreted by A. Bernard as that of Geoffroy Tory (cf. Geofroy Tory / par Auguste Bernard. 2. éd. 1865. p. 241-242), but attribution is disputed by Nagler (Monogrammisten, III, 341) and refuted by A. Ohl des Marais (article in Byblis, v. 10 (1931), p. 139-[144]), who identifies the monogram as that of Gabriel Salmon. Cf. also BN. Fonds français. Graveurs du seizième siècle, II, p. 93, no. 5. Most other cuts in another hand.
• Ornaments: 2 prints : woodcut ; full-page. Signed with the cross of Lorraine; ascribed to Geoffroy Tory by Bernard and others, but the mark is interpreted by Ohl des Marais (article in Byblis, v. 10, p. 13-[17]) as that of Jacquemin Woeiriot, who cut some of Tory's designs. Comprise border on t.p., incorporating Le Noir's monogram, and printer's device on leaf 2F6v. For t.p. border, cf. Ohl des Marais, p. 16; reproduced (plate V, fig. A) as t.p. border for Le Noir's ed. of Ovid's Metamorphoses (1523). Cf. also Bernard, p. 238-239 (who states that the cut, used repeatedly by Le Noir, is a copy of a cut by Urs Graf (1519)); Renouard. Marques typographiques parisiennes, 625. Subject: Death of Pyramus and Thisbe, Judgment of Paris, etc. For device, cf. Bernard, p. 353-354; Renouard. Marques typographiques parisiennes, 623; Silvestre. Marques typographiques, 61. -- Numerous floriated and criblé initials.

Indexed In (note)

• Moreau

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1524 93-112

OCLC

NYPG93-B17605

Author

Valerius Maximus.

Title

Valere le Gra[n]t hystoriographe tresillustre translate de latin en francoys : contenant neuf liures traictans des vertueuses oeuures non seullement des rommains, mais aussi de gens destrange nacion, comme de grecs, de gens dorient et doccident, et autres parties de la terre ...

Imprint

On les vend a Paris : Par Philippe Le Noir relieur iure en luniuersite de Paris a lenseigne de la Rose blanche couronnee en la rue Sainct Jacques, [ca. 1524]

Indexed In:

Moreau, III, 755

Local Note

Binding: Contemporary dark brown calf, blind-stamped and gilt, with blind-stamped borders of grotesque heads and gilt fleurons in center and corners. Presumably by Le Noir; the border roll includes a moor's head. Modern repair to lower right front cover; modern label on spine.

Ms. note in Latin in an early hand tipped in on free front endpaper; ms. marginalia in Latin on p. [2-11].

Provenance: Monasterium Rhenoviense (inscription on t.p.); Emil B. Goldschmidt (bookplate).

Local Subject

Goldschmidt, Emil B. Provenance.

Added Author

Hesdin, Simon de, active 14th century.

Nicolas, de Gonesse, active 15th century.

Tory, Geoffroy, approximately 1480-approximately 1533. Attributed name

Salmon, Gabriel. Wood engraver

Woeiriot, Jacquemin. Wood engraver

Le Noir, Philippe. bnd.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1524 93-112