Title
Icones historiarvm Veteris Testamenti : ad viuum expressae, extremàque diligentia emendatiores factae : Gallicis in expositione homoeoteleutis, ac versuum ordinibus (qui priùs turbati, ac impares) suo numero restitutis
Note
IMPRINT:
Lvgdvni : Apud Ioannem Frellonium, 1547.
CITATION/REFERENCES:
Baudrier V,
Brunet III, 25
Index Aureliensis, 145.245
Mortimer, R. French 16th cent., 281
New Hollstein. German engravings, XIVa, 100
CONTRIBUTORS:
Preface by Nicolas Bourbon; French text by Gilles Corrozet.
FORMAT:
Signature: A-N⁴.
[104] pages (the last blank) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
BINDING:
Copy in red morocco binding with blindstamping and gold stamping; stamped "Lortic" on inside front cover bottom centre goldstamping.
ILLUSTRATIONS:
The 94 ill. appear one to a page, between the Latin text that is being illustrated at the head, and the French translation by Gilles Corrozet at the foot in the form of a rhymed quatrain. The woodcuts were first used as book illustrations for: Biblia utriusque testamenti iuxta Vulgatam translationem (Lyon : M. and G. Trechsel [for Hugo à Porta], 1538); see Hollstein. Frellon's crab and butterfly device appears on t.p. The four evangelists in medallions on N3v are by another hand. See Mortimer.
Woodcuts by Lützelburger after Holbein.
CONTENT:
The 1st of 2 eds. of 1547, with the 5th line of title ending in "emenda-" and the first line of the French text on L1r ending in "uices." See Mortimer.
CONDITION:
Copy lacking signature leaves A2 and A3 with the Preface by Corrozet and a Poem to the reader by Nicholas Bourbon.