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Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses, tresillustre royne de Nauarre.

Accession number
PML 1816
Creator
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.
Published
À Lyon : Par Thibault Payen, 1549.
Description
2 v. ([16], 914 [i.e. 815], [1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 13 cm (16mo)
Notes
Poems, religious in v. 1, secular in v. 2. "Comedies": p. 148-351.
Edited by S. Sylvius.
Ill. are generally attributed to Bernard Salomon.
3rd ed. (?), preceded by two 1547 ed.; cf. Mortimer, R. French, 365.
Le Miroir de l'ame pecheresse has s
Binding
Bound in 1 volume: brown calf, decorated bands painted black, gold-tooled, central compartment on each cover contains a love-knot flanked by the initials EB (the B clumsily altered to R) and surmounted by a crown, by the King Edward and Queen Mary Binder.
Variant title
Vol. 2 has title: Suyte des Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses
Provenance
Formerly owned by Edward VI (probably author's presentation copy; cf. Pearson).
Classification
Century
Department