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NATALIBUS (PETRUS DE) Catalogus sanctorum: vitas, passiones & miracula commodissime annectens: ex voluminibus selectus, Lyon, N. Petit and H. Penet, 1534 image 1
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NATALIBUS (PETRUS DE)
Catalogus sanctorum, Lyon, N. Petit and H. Penet, 1534

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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NATALIBUS (PETRUS DE)

Catalogus sanctorum: vitas, passiones & miracula commodissime annectens: ex voluminibus selectus, title printed in red and black within architectural woodcut border, large woodcut of the Crucifixion, double column text illustrated throughout with approximately 1600 woodcuts of saints, some within historiated initials, printer's device on verso of final leaf, some occasional light damp-staining (mostly marginal), a few small rust marks, title stained, various early and later ink inscriptions to title-page (recto and verso), below crucifixion woodcut and on colophon, pencil and ink notes on front free endpaper, eighteenth century French mottle calf, rebacked and recornered, gilt panelled spine spine with repeated floral tool and raised bands [Adams N50], 4to (253 x 170mm.), Lyon, N. Petit and H. Penet, 1534

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Provenance: Jean Roussel (possibly the priest at the Eglise Saint-Gervais, spiritual adviser to Pierre and Madame Acarie, 'Blessed Marie de l'Incarnation'), inscription on title-page ("Sum Joannis Roussel"), followed by a quote from Proverbs in Latin ('Give me neither poverty nor riches...'); Gabriel de Villars, presentation inscription dated 1599 on final page and signature on title-page; Monastery of Saint Vedast, or Vaast, Arras, inscription in upper margin of title-page; Claude-Robert Jardel (of Braine, 1712-1788, antiquary, bibliophile and manuscript collector), ownership inscriptions on title ("Ex libris Jardel" and "Jard[el]/ 17[?]", in margin, cropped), verso of title ("Ex Biblioth. Claude Rob. Jardel") and beneath crucifixion woodcut ("Ex libris Claud. Rob. Jardel"); Sir Francis Palgrave (1788-1861, archivist and historian), inscribed on fly-leaf "For my dear Inglis/ F.P./ 14 Jul.[?] 1843"; Inglis Palgrave (1827-1919, economist, son of Sir Francis Palgrave and brother of Francis Turner Palgrave, compiler of the Golden Treasury), bookplate; Edward Ingram Watkin (1888-1981, Catholic philosopher, pacifist and writer), lengthy notes on verso of front free endpaper, mostly in pencil, concerning the early and recent provenance (..."[in 1919] I purchased this book from Messrs. Baker... given to my daughter and son-in-law November 4 1964"); Richard and Magdalen Goffin (the son-in-law and daughter referred to above), bookplate.

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