Le mystere d'iniquité . c'est a dire, l'histoire de la papauté par quels progrez elle est montée à ce comble, & quelles oppositions les gens de bien lui ont faict de temps en temps. Ou sont aussi defendus les droicts des empereurs rois & princes chrestiens, contre les assertions des cardinaux Bellarmin & Baronius. Par Philippes de Mornay cheualier, seigneur du Plessis Marly, &c. ...
Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly (1549-1623)
Category
Books
Date
1611
Materials
Measurements
333 x 233 x 48 mm
Place of origin
France
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3058124
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink and engraving ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English? End Leaves: Sewn outside hook 2 sheet endleaves of white handmade laid paper (OHp3 trimmed at an angle at head and tail), with the outer leaf as pastedown. At the front, followed by a sewn single fold of a different paper. Structure: English Edges: plain cut, sprinkled with blue and red pigment and polished Spine Lining: Moderate round, slight joints, tight back and no evidence of linings End Bands: Worked 2x2 L-R in blue and white thread over rolled paper cores. 4 tiedowns. Bookmark: None Boards: 3mm paper pulp boards, no back cornering, all slips laced, neatly and perpendicularly Covering: Full brown tanned calf with a corrosive black stain, applied before the book was covered Tooling Spine: gold-tooled centre tool (original in panel 6, tooled over in 1,3,4 & 5) and broad single fillet at head and tail of each panel and gold-tooled leather title label in panel 2. Tooling Sides: gold-tooled double fillet border with small rosette on corners and large coat of arms blocked in gold in centre. Blind-tooled double fillet along spine edge of board. Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: The spine, all but the tail end panel, was retooled in the 18th century, when also the title label was added. (see A. 6. 8.)
Bibliographic description
[2],13,[3]; 607,[1]p., plate . ill.. . fol... Not indigenous. Folding plate bound after preface; before sig. B1; portrait plate (not called for in collation here?) bound following sig. A1. Front free endpaper partly torn away.. Provenance: Seventeenth-century inscriptions on flyleaves: 1. Ambros Stony [?] Stratforth. 2. "Luenimus [?] notus omnibus ignotus moritur sibi, Tho: Wentworth". [i.e. Sir Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641), 1st Earl of Strafford, of Wentworth Woodhouse, adviser to Charles I]. Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century bookplate: William Charles De Meuron. Earl Fitzwilliam. (Not found in Franks). [i.e. William Charles de Meuron Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943)]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on pastedown in Norris's hand: "Wentworth Woodhouse (Traylen 364). Đ4-7-6 7/49", with added notes on plates and on author. Binding: Seventeenth-century (?) full leather over boards, very worn; gilt fillets; gilt armorial stamp on upper cover [of the Wentworth / Fitzwilliam family?]; gilt tools on spine; sewn on six raised bands.
Makers and roles
Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly (1549-1623)