Le réveil de Chyndonax prince des Vacies druydes celtiques Diionois, auec la saincteté, religion, & diuersité des ceremonies obseruees aux anciennes sepultures. Par I. G. D. M. D.
Jean Guénebauld (d.1630)
Category
Books
Date
1621
Materials
Place of origin
Dijon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3207366
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 176, [16] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., coat of arms ; 4to. Running number: 5902. Head of first front fly-leaf cut out. Provenance: manuscript inscription on third front fly-leaf facing title page: "Guenebauld" [i.e. catalogue entry note for anonymous works, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Author's name written on title page, the surname crossed-through: "par J Guenebauld". Manuscript bibliograhic notes in Latin written in a seventeenth-century hand on recto and verso of third front fly-leaf: "Andr. Taurellus latine tractatu[m] ... edidit Anno 1639. quem Philippus à Turne doctè refutavit in libri de Deo Mithra. En Montfaucon Monachus Benedict. Inscriptionem ... Auctor libri J. Guenebault fuit Doctor Medicinae ... 2da Editio ...". Manuscript notes in same hand on p. [16] of preliminaries, on folded plate, on p. [16] at end, and on rear fly-leaf. With occasional manuscript marginalia in same seventeenth-century hand and underscoring of text. Errata corrected in manuscript throughout. Binding: eighteenth-century[?] gold-tooled red goatskin; border of triple gilt fillets between two roll patterns (one dog-tooth, the other floral with crowns and heads of dolphins); gilt floral roll pattern along board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with gilt floral panel stamps and gilt title label. All edges gilt. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Jean Guénebauld (d.1630)