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Le CAQUET DES BÕNES CHAMBERIERES declarant aucunes finesses dont elles Usent Vers leurs maistres et maistresses. Imprimé nouvellement par le commandemēt de leur secretaire maistre Pierre babillet. Plaquette in-4, red morocco, triple fillet, spine with 5 nerfs decorated à la grotesque, interior lace, gilt edges ( Bauzonnet-Trautz). Not in Bechtel (47/B-1 et seq.) or Brunet (I-1568-1764) // Renouard, 759 // Rothschild, III-2318. (8f.) / A-B4 / 27 lines, gothic car / 88 x 132 mm. Edition unknown to Bechtel, as well as Brunet (who describes a copy that seems to match ours but gives a different number of lines per page), Fairfax Murray and Tchemerzine. A very rare edition of this facétie en vers sur les chambrières, unlisted in bibliographies, and very probably the only known copy. It consists of 8 unencrypted leaves. The title appears at the top of the first leaf, with a mid-page vignette depicting Maistre Pierre Babillet being offered a book. The text begins on the verso of this first leaf Chãberieres veuillez moy pardõner si ie pretēdz descouvrir vos finesses and ends on the recto of the 8th leaf (B4) A dieu ie te dis Guillemette, folio on the reverse of which appears a mark S M attributed by Renouard and Rothschild to Sulpice Mérenget, a Parisian bookseller who worked on rue Saint-Jacques from 1538 (1531?) to 1548. The copy bears the bookplate of Baron de Ruble on the first flyleaf. It appeared in the sale of his library under number 153 and, according to the description, is the only known copy. This sheet gives no indication of the date, but Émile Picot, in Le Monologue dramatique dans l'ancien théâtre français (1886, p. 20), indicates an approximate date of 1530. The edition was actually printed a few years later, as it bears the mark of Sulpice Mérenget, but it cannot be later than 1550. Indeed, from this date onwards, the editions are supplemented by a second facétie, which can be dated according to its title: Pronostication sur les mariez et femmes veufues pour l'an mil cinq cens et cinquante. Our edition probably dates from around 1540. We have found no information on the name Pierre Babillet, a pseudonym probably inspired by "babillage", and all bibliographic entries referring to other editions of this text classify it at Caquet des bonnes chambrières, a classification we have adopted. 2 small epidermures on the edges. Provenance: Léon Cailhava (I, October 21, 1845, no. 313) and Baron Joseph de Ruble (May 29-June 3, 1899, no. 153).
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Le CAQUET DES BÕNES CHAMBERIERES declarant aucunes finesses dont elles Usent Vers leurs maistres et maistresses. Imprimé nouvellement par le commandemēt de leur secretaire maistre Pierre babillet. Plaquette in-4, red morocco, triple fillet, spine with 5 nerfs decorated à la grotesque, interior lace, gilt edges ( Bauzonnet-Trautz). Not in Bechtel (47/B-1 et seq.) or Brunet (I-1568-1764) // Renouard, 759 // Rothschild, III-2318. (8f.) / A-B4 / 27 lines, gothic car / 88 x 132 mm. Edition unknown to Bechtel, as well as Brunet (who describes a copy that seems to match ours but gives a different number of lines per page), Fairfax Murray and Tchemerzine. A very rare edition of this facétie en vers sur les chambrières, unlisted in bibliographies, and very probably the only known copy. It consists of 8 unencrypted leaves. The title appears at the top of the first leaf, with a mid-page vignette depicting Maistre Pierre Babillet being offered a book. The text begins on the verso of this first leaf Chãberieres veuillez moy pardõner si ie pretēdz descouvrir vos finesses and ends on the recto of the 8th leaf (B4) A dieu ie te dis Guillemette, folio on the reverse of which appears a mark S M attributed by Renouard and Rothschild to Sulpice Mérenget, a Parisian bookseller who worked on rue Saint-Jacques from 1538 (1531?) to 1548. The copy bears the bookplate of Baron de Ruble on the first flyleaf. It appeared in the sale of his library under number 153 and, according to the description, is the only known copy. This sheet gives no indication of the date, but Émile Picot, in Le Monologue dramatique dans l'ancien théâtre français (1886, p. 20), indicates an approximate date of 1530. The edition was actually printed a few years later, as it bears the mark of Sulpice Mérenget, but it cannot be later than 1550. Indeed, from this date onwards, the editions are supplemented by a second facétie, which can be dated according to its title: Pronostication sur les mariez et femmes veufues pour l'an mil cinq cens et cinquante. Our edition probably dates from around 1540. We have found no information on the name Pierre Babillet, a pseudonym probably inspired by "babillage", and all bibliographic entries referring to other editions of this text classify it at Caquet des bonnes chambrières, a classification we have adopted. 2 small epidermures on the edges. Provenance: Léon Cailhava (I, October 21, 1845, no. 313) and Baron Joseph de Ruble (May 29-June 3, 1899, no. 153).
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