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The DOCTRINAL OF MARRIED WOMEN. Plaquette in-4, red morocco, triple fillet, 5-rib spine nicely decorated with petit fers, interior lace, gilt edges ( Trautz-Bauzonnet). Not in Baudrier // Bechtel, 241/D-338 // Brunet, II-783 // Claudin, III, 441 // Fairfax Murray, 128 // GW, 8593 // USTC, 79166. (6f.) / a6 / 20 lines, gothic car / 121 x 180 mm. Very rare first edition or incunabula second edition of this advice in verse to married women. This versified piece is composed of 45 stanzas of four lines each. It is a series of injunctions to virtue, beginning with obedience to the husband: Femme qui es en mariage / A ton seul mary tabandonne / car q[ui] his body has several dõne / Jamais il n'est tenu pour saige. Claudin, in his Histoire de l'imprimerie, describes these popular and naive productions: The raw word was not spared, but no one paid any attention to it. The equivocations were full of coarse Gallic salt, charming the vulgar and giving us a fairly accurate picture of the various degrees of the social scale at the time (III-442). In the course of these stanzas, among other incitements to pray to God, we find wise warnings such as..: Woman forgets the course of Venus Which is only sin & lust And thinks that by this garbage Mains sont apute fin venus Woman looks at madness Que Dido commist pour Enee By her lust was burnt And in hell arse ﾌ bruye This platelet was printed by Pierre Pincerne, a printer in Lyon between 1485 and 1494 under the name Pierre Bouttellier, whose productions are still rather poorly known but who published several of these popular little platelets. This one was printed around 1488, when this workshop used the large initial L on the title. Another edition in four leaves was published around the same year in Besançon, but it is not clear which preceded the other. Our edition is illustrated on the title with a large grotesque grotesque L (71 x 36 mm) presenting two faces (initial "a" of this workshop according to the classification of the Berlin Staatsbibliothek, used in 1487 and 1488) and a woodcut on the verso of the title depicting a woman in front of two men, one old and the other young. The verso of the last leaf is blank. This edition is extremely rare. Brunet mentions a Bruyères-Chalabre copy (sale 1833, no. 520), which Fairfax Murray assumes to be the same as the present one. There is no evidence to confirm this assertion, as the Chalabre copy was described at the time as bound in blue half-maroquin, nor to refute it, as the copy may have been rebound by Trautz-Bauzonnet between the Bruyères-Chalabre and Yemeniz sales. A very fine copy, finely bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet. The copy has been perfectly established, naturally washed and the ink is a little pale in two or three stanzas. The first 3 leaves show a small restoration in the outer margin. Provenance: Nicolas Yemeniz (bookplate, May 9, 1867, no. 1663), Count Raoul de Lignerolles (II, March 5-17, 1894, no. 1117, dated "circa 1525") and Fairfax Murray (label, no. 128).
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The DOCTRINAL OF MARRIED WOMEN. Plaquette in-4, red morocco, triple fillet, 5-rib spine nicely decorated with petit fers, interior lace, gilt edges ( Trautz-Bauzonnet). Not in Baudrier // Bechtel, 241/D-338 // Brunet, II-783 // Claudin, III, 441 // Fairfax Murray, 128 // GW, 8593 // USTC, 79166. (6f.) / a6 / 20 lines, gothic car / 121 x 180 mm. Very rare first edition or incunabula second edition of this advice in verse to married women. This versified piece is composed of 45 stanzas of four lines each. It is a series of injunctions to virtue, beginning with obedience to the husband: Femme qui es en mariage / A ton seul mary tabandonne / car q[ui] his body has several dõne / Jamais il n'est tenu pour saige. Claudin, in his Histoire de l'imprimerie, describes these popular and naive productions: The raw word was not spared, but no one paid any attention to it. The equivocations were full of coarse Gallic salt, charming the vulgar and giving us a fairly accurate picture of the various degrees of the social scale at the time (III-442). In the course of these stanzas, among other incitements to pray to God, we find wise warnings such as..: Woman forgets the course of Venus Which is only sin & lust And thinks that by this garbage Mains sont apute fin venus Woman looks at madness Que Dido commist pour Enee By her lust was burnt And in hell arse ﾌ bruye This platelet was printed by Pierre Pincerne, a printer in Lyon between 1485 and 1494 under the name Pierre Bouttellier, whose productions are still rather poorly known but who published several of these popular little platelets. This one was printed around 1488, when this workshop used the large initial L on the title. Another edition in four leaves was published around the same year in Besançon, but it is not clear which preceded the other. Our edition is illustrated on the title with a large grotesque grotesque L (71 x 36 mm) presenting two faces (initial "a" of this workshop according to the classification of the Berlin Staatsbibliothek, used in 1487 and 1488) and a woodcut on the verso of the title depicting a woman in front of two men, one old and the other young. The verso of the last leaf is blank. This edition is extremely rare. Brunet mentions a Bruyères-Chalabre copy (sale 1833, no. 520), which Fairfax Murray assumes to be the same as the present one. There is no evidence to confirm this assertion, as the Chalabre copy was described at the time as bound in blue half-maroquin, nor to refute it, as the copy may have been rebound by Trautz-Bauzonnet between the Bruyères-Chalabre and Yemeniz sales. A very fine copy, finely bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet. The copy has been perfectly established, naturally washed and the ink is a little pale in two or three stanzas. The first 3 leaves show a small restoration in the outer margin. Provenance: Nicolas Yemeniz (bookplate, May 9, 1867, no. 1663), Count Raoul de Lignerolles (II, March 5-17, 1894, no. 1117, dated "circa 1525") and Fairfax Murray (label, no. 128).
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