CARION (Jean)

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CARION (Jean)
History, or Chronicle of the most memorable things that happened from the beginning of the world, dating back to the reign of the very Christian Roy of France & Navarre Henry IIII. Lyon, Jacques de La Haye, 1609. Fort in-16, 32 ff.n.ch., 733 pp. (the pagination jumps from 224 to 227) and 2 ff.n.ch.: red morocco, triple gilt fillet, richly decorated spine, fawn title piece, inside and on the cuts, gilt edges on marbling (binding c. 1700). Famous universal chronicle of Jean Carion (1499-1537), German astrologer and mathematician who was a pupil of Philippe Melanchthon. Very popular in Protestant circles, its success is attested by the fifty or so editions published in a century, from its publication in German in 1532 in Wittemberg to the French edition given in Geneva in 1611. This edition, one of the last of this book, is a translation of Jean Le Blond (1502-1553), to whom we owe the first French version of this chronicle in 1547 (Cf. The Reformation of Historical Thought, 2019, appendix E: "Carion's Chronicle - Census of Editions"). Delightful morocco binding with the spine entirely covered with a gilded decoration with small irons. This decoration, whose richness contrasts with the sobriety of the triple fillet framing the plates, uses many different irons in the boxes, which are separated by a wheel with a bird on the nerves, at the head and tail: around a small central iron, small stars, flowers, crossed palmettes and olive branches unfurl around a small central iron. The quality and delicacy of the gilding are an invitation to attribute it to the workshop of Luc-Antoine Boyet. Some freckles.
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