Liber precationvm
qvas Carolvs Calvvs, imperator Hludouici Pij caesaris filius, sibi adolescenti pro quotidiano vsuante años vigintiquinq[ue] supra septingentos in vnum colligi & literis scribi aureis mandauit : in honorem et vsvm serenissimi principis Maximiliani ... : nunc primum in lucem editus & posteritati communicatus
by Charles II King of France
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Dedication by the editor: F. Felicianus episcopus scalensis N.A. &c.
T.p. and each text page within one of a number of woodcut ornamental borders. Three pairs of engravings on facing pages: 1v, 2r; A1v, A2r; H4v, H5r. They include a port. of Maximilian at age 11, and of Charles as an adolescent.
Binding: 19th-century tan calf. Red spine label with title: LIBER / PRECVM / CAROLI / CALVI. Blue spine label with date: 1583. Gilt double fillets on edges of boards, dentelles. The page edges gilt. Binder's stamp at upper left corner of front free endpaper verso: PETIT SUCCr. SIMIER.
Centered on front pastedown is booklabel of Charles V.D. Elst. Inscribed in brown innk at upper right of 2nd front free endpaper recto: Ex libris J.J. Chaponnière... (perhaps Jean-Jacques Chaponnière, 1817-1890, doctor and antiquary of Geneva). Inscribed in black ink in tiny characters at inner edge of back free endpaper recto: J. Chappée. Doré. Cenoman. 1892 (perhaps Julien Chappée, b. 1862, philologist of Le Mans [=Cenomani]).
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