Accession number:
PML 55184
Uniform title:
Bible. Psalms. Latin. 1586.
Published:
Paris : Ches Iamet Mettayer Imprimeur du Roy, 1586.
Description:
6 p.l., 235 f. : ill. ; 28 cm
Notes:
"Cantiqves," f. 219-235, in Latin.
Brunet, Livre illustré en France au XVIe siècle, p. 135, 288.
Illustrations: engraved title vignette and 1 full-page engraving, both depicting David at prayer.
Printed in red and black.
Ruled in red.
Binding:
Full brown morocco, tooled in silver, with macabre symbols and emblems of mortality, silver applied to edges; bound for a member of the Compagnie des Confrères de la Mort, of which Henry III of France was founder; in a brown buckram box.
Provenance:
From the Nestle-John and Abbey collections.
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