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LE ROY, François. Le Livre de la Femme Forte et Vertueuse declaratif du Cantique de Salomon es Proverbes au chapitre qui se commence. Mulierem fortem quis inveniet ... compose par ung religieulx de la reformation de lordre de Fontevrault a la requeste de sa seur religieuse reformee dudit ordre. Paris: for Jean Petit, [ca. 1515].
8° (131 x 95 mm.). Collation: A-z a-i8 k4 (-k4 blank). Bâtarde type. Printer's woodcut device, criblé initials. (Lightly washed and pressed.) Gold-tooled green morocco, arms in centre of sides, semé of crowned monograms, edges gilt and gauffered to a floral design, signed by Lortic, green morocco box by Maylander. Provenance: Charles-Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Parma, Count of Villafranca (arms, monogram).
This exposition of the final chapter of Proverbs, "Who can find a virtuous woman?", includes vernacular devotions and treats all subjects of medieval domesticity, EXTREMELY RARE "gothique" (copies recorded in London, Paris, Seville).
8° (131 x 95 mm.). Collation: A-z a-i8 k4 (-k4 blank). Bâtarde type. Printer's woodcut device, criblé initials. (Lightly washed and pressed.) Gold-tooled green morocco, arms in centre of sides, semé of crowned monograms, edges gilt and gauffered to a floral design, signed by Lortic, green morocco box by Maylander. Provenance: Charles-Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Parma, Count of Villafranca (arms, monogram).
This exposition of the final chapter of Proverbs, "Who can find a virtuous woman?", includes vernacular devotions and treats all subjects of medieval domesticity, EXTREMELY RARE "gothique" (copies recorded in London, Paris, Seville).