Shelfmark
Gk.7.24
Title
La devise des armes des chevaliers de la table ronde, lesquels estoyent du tres renommé & vertueux Artus, roy de la grand Bretaigne. Avec la descriptio[n] de leurs armoiries..
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : Pour Anthoine Houic, demourant en la rue S. Iacques, à l'enseigne de l'elephant., [1585?]
Physical description
[96] leaves : coats of arms ; 10 cm. (12mo)
Note
Signatures: A-M⁸.
Note
Includes printer's device of Madeleine Boursette (an elephant carrying a castle on its back, below initials "MB").
Provenance
Bookplate of "R.H." portraying a female nude lying on an open book, signed Rouveyre 1909", on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf.
Provenance
Ms. signature on front flyleaf: "Petrus Levesque".
Binding
?19th-century red morocco binding over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with blind fillet to form a border. Spine rounded, decorated with gilt fillets and titling ("Devise des armes de chevaliers"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; two flyleaves at the upper end of the textblock, eight at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Some early modern ms. notes written in French next to the printed text; additional notes in Latin entitled "De Arthuro" on rear flyleaves. These appear to be in the same hand.
Copy-specific note
Hand-painted coats of arms and printer's device.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.6.12.
Subject
Knights and knighthood Great Britain Early works to 1800.
Subject
Great Britain History Heraldry To 1066 Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Armorials.
Added entry--name
Houic, Antoine, active 1566 - 1597 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Boursette, Madeleine printer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Rouveyre, André, 1879 - 1962 associated name.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B51415