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GIROUFFLIER -- Le giroufflier aux dames, ensemble le dit des sibiles. Epistre de seneque a lucille consolatoire de liberal leur amy qui estoit triste pour ce que la cite de lyon dont il estoit, estoit arse et brulee. [Lyons: Jacques Arnoullet or his heirs, or possibly Pierre Mareschal and Barnabé Chaussard, ca. 1505].
Chancery 4° (172 x 118mm). Collation: a-d4 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r Giroufflier, incipit: A lombre basse dung giroufflier vermeil, c3r Sibiles, incipit: Ung roy viendra, d1r Seneca to Lucillus, incipit: Nostre amy le liberal est maintenant triste, d4v blank). 16 leaves. Southern French paper, blessing hand watermark (Briquet 11534), recorded from 1496. Bâtarde type 96mm, related to Mareschal and Chaussard's type 4. Title printed in red and black. 32-34 lines. Woodcut illustrations: a combination and repetition of 22 blocks making up 22 different scenes. (Neat repair to lower fore-edge of title.) Blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Bauzonnet-Trautz. Provenance: Nicolas Yemeniz (1867 sale, lot 1654); Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1878 sale, lot 229).
FIRST EDITION of an anonymous poem, writen in decasyllabic verses, in praise of women and in their defense against the attacks of Guillaume Lorris and Jean de Meung's Le roman de la rose. The vernacular verses of the apocalyptic Christian sayings of the Sibyls was left out in later editions. Seneca's prose account of the destruction of Lyons contains observations on the human condition and the perishableness of cities and empires. Lugdunum was founded in 59 B.C. by Greek refugees, burnt down in 59 A.D., and rebuilt by the emperor Nero. "The clove bouquet to women" is a beautifully designed book and OF EXTREME RARITY (no copy in Paris B.N. or Lyon Bibliotheque Municipale, none in American libraries, no edition at all in the British Library, not in Brun or Adams; the 1861 facsimile edition was made from Michel Le Noir's later Paris edition). Several of the blocks were used by Arnoullet for woodcuts in Symphorien Champier's La nef des dames ca. 1503 (see Baudrier X, p. 20). All later editions have fewer illustrations. C 2738; GW IX, col. 615; A. Pericaud, Bibliographie lyonnaise du XVe siécle 434; L. Torchet, Catalogues régionaux des incunables. Bibliothèques de la Région des Pays de la Loire 386 (Nantes, Musée Dobrée); J.-Ch. Brunet II, 1616; G. Brunet, La France littéraire au XVe siècle p. 85.
Chancery 4° (172 x 118mm). Collation: a-d4 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r Giroufflier, incipit: A lombre basse dung giroufflier vermeil, c3r Sibiles, incipit: Ung roy viendra, d1r Seneca to Lucillus, incipit: Nostre amy le liberal est maintenant triste, d4v blank). 16 leaves. Southern French paper, blessing hand watermark (Briquet 11534), recorded from 1496. Bâtarde type 96mm, related to Mareschal and Chaussard's type 4. Title printed in red and black. 32-34 lines. Woodcut illustrations: a combination and repetition of 22 blocks making up 22 different scenes. (Neat repair to lower fore-edge of title.) Blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Bauzonnet-Trautz. Provenance: Nicolas Yemeniz (1867 sale, lot 1654); Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1878 sale, lot 229).
FIRST EDITION of an anonymous poem, writen in decasyllabic verses, in praise of women and in their defense against the attacks of Guillaume Lorris and Jean de Meung's Le roman de la rose. The vernacular verses of the apocalyptic Christian sayings of the Sibyls was left out in later editions. Seneca's prose account of the destruction of Lyons contains observations on the human condition and the perishableness of cities and empires. Lugdunum was founded in 59 B.C. by Greek refugees, burnt down in 59 A.D., and rebuilt by the emperor Nero. "The clove bouquet to women" is a beautifully designed book and OF EXTREME RARITY (no copy in Paris B.N. or Lyon Bibliotheque Municipale, none in American libraries, no edition at all in the British Library, not in Brun or Adams; the 1861 facsimile edition was made from Michel Le Noir's later Paris edition). Several of the blocks were used by Arnoullet for woodcuts in Symphorien Champier's La nef des dames ca. 1503 (see Baudrier X, p. 20). All later editions have fewer illustrations. C 2738; GW IX, col. 615; A. Pericaud, Bibliographie lyonnaise du XVe siécle 434; L. Torchet, Catalogues régionaux des incunables. Bibliothèques de la Région des Pays de la Loire 386 (Nantes, Musée Dobrée); J.-Ch. Brunet II, 1616; G. Brunet, La France littéraire au XVe siècle p. 85.