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 naked woman coming out of an open book, 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.
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--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B51415