Shelfmark
Gk.5.07
Author
Title
Le blason des armoiries, auquel est monstree la maniere de laquelle les anciens & modernes ont usé en icelles. Traicté, contenant slusieurs Escus differens, par le moyen desquels on peut discerner les autres, & dresser ou blasonner le armoiries. Reueu, corrigé, amplifié per l'auteur auec augmentation de plusieurs armoiries, tant anciennes que modernes..
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : Chez Nicolas Gilles, ruë S. Iacques aux trois couronnes , & à sa boutique au Palais, sur le perron vis à vis de la gallerie par où on va à la Chancellerie., 1597,.
Physical description
[12], 247 (i.e. 246), [2] p. : coats of arms ; 27 cm. (Fol.)
Note
Many errors in pagination, but a significant error is the omission of p. 182.
Note
Signatures: [par]⁶ A-2H⁴.
Note
Leaf 2H4 is blank on the verso, with a cartouche on recto, with text: 'Acheve d'imprimer le XI. de Feburier l'an M.D.LXXXI.'
Note
Includes head- and tail-pieces; decorated initials.
Note
Dedication signed: Hierome de Bara.
Note
Includes errata on p. 247 [i.e. 246].
Citation/references note
USTC, 65140
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf.
Provenance
Ex libris on title page: "Ex bib[liothec]â D. De Loyae" (stamped) "Loyae" (ms.).
Binding
?16th-century laced-case vellum binding. Covers undecorated. Spine flat with four sewing supports, undecorated. Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; one flyleaf at the upper end of the textblock, none at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.3.16.
Copy-specific note
Many ms. notes in French and hand-drawn coats of arms added to the text.
Subject
Devices (Heraldry) Early works to 1800.
Subject
Heraldry France Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Armorials.
Genre/Form
Vellum bindings.
Added entry--name
Gilles, Nicolas, active 1588 - 1597 printer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B51345