Guillaume de Saluste DU BARTAS
La sepmaine, ou creation du monde
Chez Hierosme de Marnef|à Paris 1585|14.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
New edition, the first with commentaries and notes by Pantaléon Thévenin. Printer's device on title page with the motto "En moy la mort, en moy la vie". On verso of the privilege, large arms of the Duke of Lorraine, to whom the work is dedicated (each day bears an epistle to a member of the house of Lorraine). Privilege dated October 24, 1584.
Each day is decorated with a title vignette (3.5 cm x 5 cm) and a genealogical table which precedes it and details everything the poem treats. A compass rose figure p. 171, another of the celestial map p. 220; one of climatic zones p. 281; one of the zodiac p. 367; two on eclipses p. 426 and 430. Text in beautiful italic type, the commentary which
Each day is decorated with a title vignette (3.5 cm x 5 cm) and a genealogical table which precedes it and details everything the poem treats. A compass rose figure p. 171, another of the celestial map p. 220; one of climatic zones p. 281; one of the zodiac p. 367; two on eclipses p. 426 and 430. Text in beautiful italic type, the commentary which
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