Description: Motto in French in a 16th-century Italic hand on upper endpaper
Source:
Marot, Clément, 1496-1544, Les œuures de Clement Marot
, Par. 1551
Type: Manuscript annotations / marginalia
Language:
French
Notes: 16th-century calf; blind-tooled fillets in panel design, with gold-tooled corner fleurons and centrepiece perhaps in silver, now tarnished to black; spine with four raised and two half bands, with gold- (and silver?-)tooled fleurons; fragments of manuscript on vellum (in Latin, 16th?-century hand). Elaborate (and undeciphered) monogram on title-page, in an early hand. Inscription of Thomas James, 1597, with his motto, on title-page.
Last Edited: 2018/06/05 00:00:00