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[COIGNET, Jean (16th century)]. Chante pleure deaue vive redundant cueur compunct fait ioyeulx en lermoiant. Paris: Didier Maheu for Jean Coignet, 1537.
8o (185 x 120 mm). Gothic type. Printed in red and black, with musical notation. One full-page woodcut, repeated at the end. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum. Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1967.
FIRST EDITION, written by the former Parisian attorney Jean Coignet. The title explains that the Chantepleure is a musical instrument for the singing of lamentations and the texts are intended to provide a spiritual basis for inciting penance. The work is divided into four parts: the first is a summary of the religious basis for penance. Following are a series of three extracts, the first two derived from the liturgies of Chartres and Paris. The last part collects many of the homilies of St. Gregory. Adams C-2319.
8o (185 x 120 mm). Gothic type. Printed in red and black, with musical notation. One full-page woodcut, repeated at the end. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum. Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1967.
FIRST EDITION, written by the former Parisian attorney Jean Coignet. The title explains that the Chantepleure is a musical instrument for the singing of lamentations and the texts are intended to provide a spiritual basis for inciting penance. The work is divided into four parts: the first is a summary of the religious basis for penance. Following are a series of three extracts, the first two derived from the liturgies of Chartres and Paris. The last part collects many of the homilies of St. Gregory. Adams C-2319.