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Commentarii in consuetudines Arverniae… Paris, Arnoul l’Angelier, 1548. Small folio, (1) blank leaf, (6) pp., 7 leaves of index and CLXXIII leaves, 1 p. of privilege at the end, engraved wooden initials, old handwritten annotations and underlining. Old fawn calfskin, red morocco title label, gilt roulette and title, ribbed spine highlighted with blind-stamped bands, blind-stamped band framing the
covers, edges speckled with red (binding restored, traces of skin and scratches, lightened stains, spine restored, a few foxing spots and discolouration, leaves trimmed slightly shorter during a secondary binding, which occasionally cuts off a few final letters in the handwritten glosses in the margins).
A Parisian edition in roman and italic type of one of the earliest annotated editions of the Coutume d'Auvergne, dating from 1510. Impressive title page with a large black-engraved woodcut frame – a sculpted portico featuring a motto, the arms of France, a portrait, cherubs, ornamentation and scrolls – bearing the name of the (brothers) Angeliers, 16th-century Parisian booksellers and printers, and the woodcut printer’s mark of Arnoul Angelier at the bottom (Renouard, 543). A very interesting copy. Handwritten bookplate at the top of the title page by Jacques Durant (Riom, 1558–c. 1603), who here calls himself Casellius, after his estate at Chazelles (Puy-de-Dôme), Doctor of Law, lawyer at the Presidium, and Attorney General at the Court of Aides in Montferrand. Durant has clearly highlighted and annotated his copy of the Coutume in the margins on numerous occasions, giving our copy a distinctive character and bearing witness to the work of a late 16th-century jurist. Occasionally, a different hand, likely contemporary or later, can be seen in the pen annotations. These handwritten glosses are in French or Latin. An old handwritten note of ownership, ‘Bibliothèque de Champfleury’, appears opposite the title, indicating a connection: this fiefdom was owned by a Claude Durand (born in 1649), of the Clermont family of printers. This lineage is not, at first glance, related to our Jacques Durant (although a spelling variation could be envisaged), but it should be noted that the Clermont printers were also publishers of the Coutume. Durant added a curious handwritten note, signed and dated 1580, on the last page, above the Angelier mark: in it, he refers to the death of Sieur De La Fayete (most likely a member of the Mortier de La Fayette family of Puy-de-Dôme, whose illustrious descendant went to fight in the Americas) from ‘whooping cough’. Privilege granted by Parliament on 10 July 1548 to Poncet Le Preux, whose name appears as the address on another contemporary edition of the Commentaries. Early ex libris (contemporary with the edition) in the middle of the title block over two lines (faded ink, difficult to decipher).
Chabrol, Haute et Basse Auvergne, IV, 486. Egullion, Imprimeurs, libraires et relieurs du bas-pays d'Auvergne, 101–103. Remacle, Familles d'Auvergne, II, 64–70. Tardieu, Dictionnaire du Puy-de-Dôme, 123–124.