Lot n° 43
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MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE - Le tombeau de Marguerite de Valois r - Lot 43
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE - Le tombeau de Marguerite de Valois royne de Navarre. Faict premierement en disticques latins par les trois soeurs princesses en Angleterre. Depuis traduictz en grec, italie[n], & francois par plusieurs des excellentz poetes de la Fra[n] ce. Avecques plusieurs odes, hymnes, cantiques, épitaphes, sur le mesme sujet. Paris, imprimerie de Michel Fezandat et Robert Granjon pour Vincent Sartenas, 1551. In-8, 10,5 x 17 cm , 104 ff. (A-N8), 19th-century binding, signed Lortic, in lavaliere morocco, triple gilded framing and compartment of gilded fillets à la Du Seuil, gilded corners of foliage and daisies, gilded mosaic coat of arms in the center of the boards, ribbed spine decorated with gilded foliage and daisies, gilded inner lace, gilded edges over marbling.
First edition of this poetic tomb, published at the instigation of the poet Nicolas Denisot (1515-1559), erected as a tribute to Queen Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549), elder sister of François I, patron of the arts and author of the then unpublished Heptameron.
This collection marks the first collective appearance of the poets who were to form the future Pléiade group, and includes one hundred Latin couplets allegedly composed by the young Seymour sisters, Anne (1538-1588), Margaret (b. 1540) and Jane (c. 1541-1561), daughters of the Duke of Somerset, and translated into Greek, Italian and French by Nicolas Denisot (who was tutor to the Seymour sisters and is said to be the author of these distiques), Jean Dorat (1508-1588), Jean-Pierre de Mesmes (c. 1530-1578), Joachim du Bellay (1522-1560), Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532-1589) or Antoinette de Loynes (1505-1567).
The collection also includes some fifty other pieces by Pierre de Ronsard, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Joachim du Bellay, Jean Dorat, Nicolas Denisot, Gérard Denisot, Nicolas Herberay des Essarts, Jean du Tillet, Charles de Sainte-Marthe, Gilles Bouguier, Pierre des Mireurs, Nicolas Bourbon, Martin Seguier, Jean Tagaut, Jean Salmon Macrin or Jean Morel d'Embrun.
Latin epitaph by Nicolas Denisot, under the anagram of Comte d'Alsinois (Comes Alsinous), in a double frame on the recto of the last leaf. The four poems by Ronsard are unpublished: Aux trois soeurs, Anne, Marguerite, Jane de Seymour, princesses angloises... (ff. A5-A7), Traduction de l'ode latine précédente... (translation of an ode by Dorat, f. H5), Hymne triumphal sur le trépas de Marguerite de Valois royne de Navarre... (ff. H8-K1), Aux cendres de Marguerite de Valois royne de Navarre. Ode pastorale... (ff. L8-M2), illustrated with a fine woodcut portrait of Marguerite de Navarre in a frame. Woodcut mark of Michel Fezandat on the title. A fine copy bound by Lortic. From the libraries of: - Robert Samuel Turner (1818-1887) with his bookplate (sale Paris, March 12- 16, 1878, no. 289, sold for 700 F. "Rare volume. Bel exemplaire, grand de marge"). - Pierre Guy-Pellion (1845-1910), banker, with his bookplate (sale Paris, February 6-11, 1882, no. 169). - Eugène Marigues de Champ Repus (1828-1892), officer, with his bookplate (sale Paris, January 24-25, 1893). - Librairie Belin, Paris (catalog April 1901, no. 1304, 350 F). - Bernardy de Sigoyer family (early 20th-century arms on boards, later than binding). An early hand has identified the initials of the translators of the couplets in ink. Two yellowed leaves (A2 and A7). Brunet V, 879-880. - Barbier IV, 719. - Tchemerzine-Scheler IV, p. 374 (b). - Le Petit, pp. 64-65.
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