Bod-Inc: C-468
Coutumes de Bretagne
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A1v [Coutumes de Bretagne, Prologue.] Incipit: ‘Le philosophe parlant de lestat . . .’
A4r ‘Constitutions de la tres noble duche de Bretaigne avec les coustumes de la mer'. Incipit: ‘De ceulx qui veullent viure honnestement et iustice estre faicte. [Q]ui vouldroit entendre a viure honnestement . . .’
V3r [Coutumes de Bretagne, conclusion.] Incipit: ‘Cy finent les coustumes constitutions et establissements de Bretaigne . . .’
V3r [Ordinances and statutes of Brittany.] Incipit: ‘Sensuyuent les ordonannces et statuz du Roy faitz au pais de Bretaigne ou moys de may. Lan mil iiii.cc.quatre vingtz et quatorze. Charles par la grace de Dieu roy de France. Comme soubz la main tuition de deffence de dieu . . .’
X4r [Colophon.]
X4v [Notice on place of sale.] Incipit: ‘Qui en aura a besogner on en trouuera chieulz Jehan Mace demourant a Rennes pres saint sauueur A lenseigne saint Jehan leuangeliste'.
¶1r [Table of contents.]
Imprint
Imprint: Rouen: Jean Mauditier, Laurent Hostinque, and Jamet Loys for Robert I Macé, [c.1500]. 8°.
Remarks: As tentatively dated by Pierre Aquilon, Bibliographie Normande: Bibliographie des ouvrages imprimées à Caen et à Rouen au seizième siècle, fascicule 6, Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au seizième siècle, fascicule hors série, Bibliotheca bibliographica aureliana, 107 (Baden-Baden, 1986), 57-8.
Collation
Collation: A10 B–V8 X4 ¶4.
Remarks: Leaf A5 is signed Aii.
References
ISTC: ic00954500
Proctor: Not in Pr;
Others: not in Sheppard.
Copies
Copy number: C-468(1)
Bound with:
2. Constitutions de Bretagne: Table. Nantes, Étienne Larcher, [c.1493-4] (C‑469).
Binding: Contemporary French (Paris) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; two metal clasps lost. On both covers a panel-stamp depicting the martyrdom of S. Sebastianus, inscribed DENIS ROCE; see G. D. Hobson, ‘Parisian Binding 1500-1525', Library, 4th ser., 11 (1931), 432. The second front endleaf contains a fifteenth/sixteenth-century woodcut of S. Christophorus, 45 × 82 mm
Size: 145 × 105 × 46 mm.
Size of leaf: 141 × 103 mm.
On f4r of item 1: ‘Qui cest liure emblera | propter sui maliciam | Par my le coul pundu(!) sera | Repungnando superbiam | Au gibet sera sa maison | Coram suis parentibus | Car ce fera bone raison | exemplum dabit omnibus' in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand, and repeated at the end of item 2; running headlines of chapter numbers in black ink. Ruling in red ink.
Provenance: On the front endleaf an inscription: ‘François Kinidu' in a sixteenth-century hand; on f4r of item 1 inscription: ‘F Kynydu h[abet] in sua vysy [usu?] ipse'; on V3v: ‘Francoys Kynydu h[abet] in [ ] wysy[?] ipse [?]'. John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 77: ‘Constitutions de tres noble duche de la Bretagne avec les Coustumes de le mer. Rouen.’ Presented in 1659.
SHELFMARK: 8° B 18(2) Jur. Seld.
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