L'ATELIER DES RELIURES LOUIS XII et FRANÇOIS Ier (Inventory)

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French Decorative Bookbinding - Sixteenth Century

A study of

l'atelier des reliures LOUIS XII et FRANÇOIS Ier
the decorative bookbindings from the workshops of Louis XII and Francis I

Inventory

This inventory follows the numbering of Jacques Guignard's 1968 list that was an amalgam of his work and that of Emile Dacier in 1933. Dacier tried to order the various examples chronologically however taking into account the wide margin of error, this list can serve only as a rough guide. Denise Gid (1984) reproduced a rubbing from a binding that is possibly one of the earliest from this atelier (1502). I have recreated a "virtual" binding from that rubbing. and we can place it here at the top of the list. It is a rather plain decoration but can be seen as quite typical for this period. The greater part has been achieved through the repeated application of a cleverly designed palette in the form of two nearly identical floral tiles. This pattern, when carefully laid down has fooled some into thinking that the result was achieved by the use of a roulette. Gid has catalogued this stamp as dc 24 (shown below, the imprint is about one inch or 2.5 centimeters in length)

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In this group there are dozens of nearly identical stamps. It would appear to be one of the most common tools and wide spread in France at the beginning of the 16th century. This tool is therefore not easy to identify in the midst of so many others, however it is a major component of many of the Louis XII bindings.

(Virtual No. 1) Aldo Manuzio, Orthographia et flexus dictionum graecarum apud statium
Venise, Aldo Manuzio 1502, upper cover.
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(No. 1) Catullus, Carmina, Ltons: Balthasar de Gabiana, [c. 1503], upper cover.
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(No. 2) Jean de Pins, D. Catherinae Senenis ... vita, Bologne B. Hectoreus, 1505, upper cover.
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(No. 3) Albert le Grand, Postillatio in Apocalypsim, Bâle, J. de Pforczen, 1506, upper cover..
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(No. 4) F. Andrelini, Ad invictissimum Ludovicum XII, Manuscrit, [Paris?] 1507, upper cover.
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(No. 5) François Tissard, liber gnomagynicus Paris, G. de Gourmont 1507, upper cover.
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(No. 6) François Tissard, Grammatica hebraïca etc. Paris, G. de Gourmont 1507-1509, upper cover.
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(No. 7) Alfonso Ricci, Dialogus in Valdensium... errorem, Paris, J. Bade, 1509, upper cover.
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(No. 8) Ricoldo de Montecroce, Contra sectam maumeticam ed. G. Parvy, Paris, Henri Estienne, 1509, upper cover.
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(No. 9) Ricoldo de Montecroce, Contra sectam maumeticam ed. G. Parvy, Paris, Henri Estienne, 1509, upper cover.
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(No. 10) Pierre de Biaix , Praeclarum de insigne opus ed. G. Parvy, Paris, J. Petit et G. Eustache, 1513 lower cover.
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(No. 11) Coustumes... d'Auvergne, Paris, J. Petit, Clermont-Ferrand, L. Martin, 1511 lower cover
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(No. 12) Coustumes generalles de Paris, Paris, J. Petit et G. Eustache, 1513, lower cover.
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(No. 13) Coustumes generalles de Paris, Paris, J. Petit et G. Eustache, 1515, lower cover.
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(No. 14) Guillaume de la Mare, Sylvarium libri IV, Paris, J. Bade, 1511-1513 upper cover.
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(No. 15) J. F. Quinziano Stoa, de Celeberrimae Parrhisiorum urbe laudibus, [Paris}, 1514, upper cover.
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(No. 16) see inventory page 3 (under construction)

(No. 17) Biblia latina Manuscrit, Paris, XIIIe siècle, upper cover.
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(No. 18) Status de l'Ordre de Saint-Michel, Manuscrit, Paris? Fin XVe siècle
(Destroyed in a fire, no image available)

(No. 19) see inventory page 2

(No. 20) Heures à l'usage de Paris Paris, Simon Vostre, 1509, upper cover.
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(No. 21) see inventory page 2

(No. 22) see inventory page 2

(No. 23) Annonius, De Regum... francorum, Paris, Jean Petit et Josse Bade, 1514
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(No. 24) Heures à l'usage de Verdun Paris, Simon Vostre, 1515, lower cover.
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(No. 25) Ausone Praeludia, etc. 1515, lower cover.
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(No. 26) no image as yet

(No. 27) Fausto Andrelini, De pacifica Francorum successione. Manuscrit (Paris?) 1515, lower cover.

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(No. 28) misplaced Guignard ref or lost in the Tours municipale Bibliotheque fire 1940

(No. 29) Hugues d'Ambert, Silve.... Paris Gilles de Gourmont, 1516, upper cover.
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(No. 30) see inventory page 2

(No. 31) see inventory page 3 (under construction)

(No. 32) see inventory page 2

(No. 33) see inventory page 2

(No. 34) Recueil de pieces imprimees a Paris vers 1517-1520, lower cover, old spine replaced.
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(No. 35) Michel Lochmaier, Parrochiale curatorum, Paris, Berthold Rembolt, 1514
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( No. 36) Lactantius Firmianus (Lucius Coelius), Divinarum institutionum libri septem, Venise, Aldo Manuzio, 1515
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(No. 37) Reliure aux armes de François Ier c. 1518
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(No. 38) Manuscrit copié par Georges Hermonyme qui aurait appartenu à Guillaume Budé.
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(No. 39) PLUTARCHUS. Opuscula (text grec) - Paris Gilles de Gourmont, avil 1509
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