Search Results: Titles starting with H from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Paris: apud Andreas Wechel, 1567. 162 x 108 mm. (6 1/2 x 4"). 4 p.l., 795, [37] pp. Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, covers with four small holes for ties (lacking), flat spine with old ink titling. Front flyleaf with blue ink library stamp of Notre-Dame de Mont-Roland Free School (in the city of Dole located in eastern France on the border of Switzerland, active from 1850-1910); title page with early ink inscription: "Ad usum fr: Minorum Cappucinorum Convent[us] Cadillaci Catalogo Inscript[us]." A few short 16th or 17th century annotations. Adams A-398; Brunet I, 119; Graesse I, 48; BMC French 6; USTC 158196. ◆Vellum with one-and-one-half-inch diagonal tear to head of rear cover, binding with minor soiling, two quires lightly browned, but an excellent copy over all--internally fresh and clean, and in a solid, lustrous binding. This history of the Franks to 653 A.D. is the major work of French Benedictine Aimoin de Fleury (ca. 965 - after 1008). At the suggestion of his abbot at the Abbey of… Read More