Exordium in volumen stabilime[n]to[rum] Rhodio[rum] militu[m] ordinis hospitalis sa[n]cti ioha[n]nis iherosolimitani
Author: Knights of Malta
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Contributor(s): Caoursin, Guillaume, -1501 [translator] |
Le Dru, Pierre, active 1488-1515 [printer.].
Production / publication: [Paris] : P[ierre] L[e Dru], [between 5 Aug. 1493 and Apr. 1495] Description: 126 unnumbered leaves ; 31 cm (folio).General note: Title from caption on leaf a1r. Printer identified from colophon on leaf q5v: P L.
Printed in Le Dru's type 1:117G on Chancery folio paper. Dated from the type by CIBN.
Signatures: a-p⁸ q⁶.
First leaf within woodcut historiated border wand arms of the Grand Master, Pierre d'Aubusson.
Citation/References note: Hellwald, F.G. Bibliographie méthodique de l'Ordre Souv. de St Jean de Jérusalem, page 213; Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, ic00115000Language note: In Latin and French.Ownership note: From the Library of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead, Berkshire, an English bibliophile and keen student of palaeography (his book label on front pastedown). Binding note: Contemporary French binding of calf over oak boards, blind-stamped with rosettes and shields, surrounded by a border of interlaced ornaments; evidence of two ties. Housed in a beige buckram slipcase.Other title: Stabilimenta Rhodiorum Militum. French | Fondement de l'ordre de la chevalerie des hospitaliers de saint jehan baptiste de iherusalem | Exordium in volumen stabilimentorum Rhodiorum militum ordinis hospitalis sancti iohannis iherosolimitani.Subject(s): Knights of Malta -- StatutesSummary: First edition of the Statutes of the Knights of Malta translated in French, with a special letter in Latin by the Grand Master, dated August 5, 1493.
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Hellwald, F.G. Bibliographie méthodique de l'Ordre Souv. de St Jean de Jérusalem, page 213
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, ic00115000
In Latin and French.
St John Museum copy is rubricated throughout with red underlines and yellow capital strokes.
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