Le parfait courtisan du comte Baltasar Castillonnois, es deux langues, respondans par deux colomnes, l'vne à l'autre, pour ceux qui veulent auoir l'intelligence de l'vne d'icelles. De la traduction de Gabriel Chapuis Tourangeau.
Count Baldassarre Castiglione, Count of Casatico (1478-1529)
Category
Books
Date
1580
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008115
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 660, [36] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7186. Ruled in red throughout. Provenance: pin-prick designs on first and third front fly-leaves, that on the third leaf looks like a cipher or symbol of some description. Binding: seventeenth-century[?] full gold-tooled limp vellum; sewn onto four alum-tawed leather cords; covers have a single gilt fillet border and a gilt decorative strapwork centrepiece stamp; stubs of two pairs of red and blue linen ties in fore-edges of covers; yapp fore-edges; gilt fillet and stamp decoration on spine. All edges gilt. Vellum manuscript waste lines the spine.
Makers and roles
Count Baldassarre Castiglione, Count of Casatico (1478-1529), author Gabriel Chappuys (1546-1613), editor