Sensuyuent les Taux moderations sallaires & emolumens des greffiers du parlement des aduocatz procureurs & greffiers des lieutenans des iuges ordinaires des huissiers & sergens.
Lyon, [T. Payen for Dominique de Portonariis at Aix] 1540.
4to. [iv], [32]p. Bâtarde type, several series of wood- and metalcut initials, title and a woodcut arms of France in a FINE PARTLY WHITE-LINE ARCHITECTURAL WOODCUT FRAME BY THE LYONESE PAINTER GUILLAUME LEROY.
20th-century vellum over thin flexible boards, spine title lettered in black.
First Edition. From printed and manuscript sources, jurist and poet Antoine Arena compiled the privileges, duties and wages of every court office in Provence and the fees levied by them for services, including the preparation and execution of documents. in provençal, the final five pages list the towns and fortified castles in Provence under the French crown’s authority.
Lyonese printer Payen struggled to cast off copy or made a stop-press correction. To fit the text, he began one medial quire with 45 lines per page, jumped to 49 lines in the middle and settled back to 45 at the end. In good condition (small portion of the first blank margin neatly supplied).
¶Davies, Catalogue of…Early French Books…Fairfax Murray 411(2); Bechtel, Catalogue des gothiques T-26; Cioranesco 2608; Dollieule, Antoine Arena 70-71; Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au XVIe siècle I: 21,1; Gültlingen, Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon au 16e siècle VII: 16,61 = VII: 177,36; USTC 55894 = 24264 =79997 and Pettegree et al., French Vernacular Books…before 1601 1663-66 (the usual messes)..
Price: $2,250.00