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Title

Les loups rauissans : cestuy liure, ou autreme[n]t Doctrinal moral intitule est qui deliure douze chapitres en general, ou chascun se brutte et rural nest [par] trop, il pourra co[n]gnoistre, comment euiter vice et mal, on doit et tresuertueux estre.

Author

Gobin, Robert.

Publication

[Paris] : Imprime par Michel le Noir libraire iure en luniuersite de Paris ..., [Mar. 15, 1506]

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Details

Additional Authors

Le Noir, Michel, -1520.

Description

[496] p. : ill.; 21 cm (4to)

Alternative Title

• Doctrinal moral
• Loups ravissans
• Loups ravissants
• Comment la mort de son pouoir se vante, en racomptant le mal quaux humains fait et comme iceuly pour leurs pechez tourmente, par le vueil dieu vers qui ilz ont forfait.

Subject

• Catholic Church > Doctrines > Early works to 1800
• Catholic Church > Doctrines > Poetry
• Sin > Early works to 1800
• Sin > Poetry
• Death > Poetry
• Wolves in art
• Death in art
• Animals in human situations

Genre/Form

• Allegories – France – 16th century.
• Satires – France – 16th century.
• Satires (Visual works) – France – 16th century.
• Allegorical prints – France – 16th century.
• Woodcuts – France – 16th century.

Note

• Prose and verse.
• Originally published ca. 1505 by A. Veraud, Paris. Cf. Moreau, 1505, no. 73; Mortimer, R. French 16th cent., I, 251.
• Name of printer and date of printing from colophon, which reads: Cy fine ce present liure des loups rauissans fait & compose par maistre Robert Gobin ... Imprime par Michel le Noir libraire iure en luniuersite de Paris, demourant a la rue Sainct Iacques. Lan mil cinq cens et vi le xv iour de mars.
• Text dated Jan. 1, 1505, in "Le prologue de lacteur," leaf A1v.
• Signatures: A-X⁶ 2A-2M⁶ 2N-2O⁴ 3a-3g⁶.
• Illustrations: 21 prints from 18 blocks : woodcut ; image ca. 16 x 12 cm. (2), ca. 13 x 11 cm. (13), or smaller. The 18 cuts (including 2 repeats) in the first part are copies of cuts in the Veraud edition; of these, 14 were designed for this text, including large cut on t.p. depicting "Lacteur," "Archilupus" and "Saincte doctrine"; the others depict "Archilupus"/"Le grant loup rauissant" instructing young wolves and "Saincte Doctrine" as a shepherdess instructing her flock. Two small cuts had been used previously. Two nearly full-page cuts in the second part, depicting the death of a king and Death in a cloister, are new to this edition; a 3rd small cut is a repeat of the cut on A2v. -- Historiated, floriated and criblé initials.
• Second part (p. [412-496]) has caption title: "Comment la mort de son pouoir se vante, en racomptant le mal quaux humains fait et comme iceuly pour leurs pechez tourmente, par le vueil dieu vers qui ilz ont forfait."

Indexed In (note)

• Moreau
• Rosenwald

Language (note)

• Side notes in Latin.

Provenance (note)

• Edmée Maus (morocco book label with monogram EM)

Binding (note)

• Midnight blue crushed levant morocco, gilt, by Gruel.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1506 10-136

LCCN

51006178

OCLC

639355651

Author

Gobin, Robert.

Title

Les loups rauissans : cestuy liure, ou autreme[n]t Doctrinal moral intitule est qui deliure douze chapitres en general, ou chascun se brutte et rural nest [par] trop, il pourra co[n]gnoistre, comment euiter vice et mal, on doit et tresuertueux estre.

Imprint

[Paris] : Imprime par Michel le Noir libraire iure en luniuersite de Paris ..., [Mar. 15, 1506]

Indexed In:

Moreau, 1506, no. 71

Rosenwald, p. 116

Language

Side notes in Latin.

Binding

Midnight blue crushed levant morocco, gilt, by Gruel. NN

Provenance

Edmée Maus (morocco book label with monogram EM) NN

Place of Publication

France Paris.

Added Author

Le Noir, Michel, -1520. Printer

Gruel, Léon, 1841-1923. Binder

Maus, Edmée, 1905-1971. Former owner

Added Title

Comment la mort de son pouoir se vante, en racomptant le mal quaux humains fait et comme iceuly pour leurs pechez tourmente, par le vueil dieu vers qui ilz ont forfait.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1506 10-136