Catalogus Gloriæ Mundi, Laudes, honores, excellentias, ac Præeminentias omnium fere statuum, plurimarumq; rerum illius continens, a Spectabili viro Bartholomæo a Chasseneo Humanorum Iurium doctore, fiscali Hæduensis præsidatus patrono, edit9. Una & typis materias reco¯ditas resolventibus, cum Indice illustratus.
(Lugd.: Impressum per honoratu¯ virum Dionysium de Harsy artis calcotype industria preditu¯., Anno a Christo nato Millesimo quingentesimo vigesimo nono. Duodecimo Kalendas Junias.)
In some copies leaf PpP3 of Part 12 is missigned as pP3.
Contents
[T.p., privilege, dedic.] - Eiusdem prohemiu¯/ sive ad lectorem Prefatio - Index argumentoru¯ prime partis - [Text of Prima pars] - [Blank leaf] - [Divisional title-page, 'Secunda Pars Catalogi ...'] - [Text] - [Div. t.p., [Tertia pars Catalogi ...'] - [Text] - [Div. t.p., 'Quarta pars Catalogi ...'] - [Text] - [Blank leaf] - [Div. t.p., 'Quinta pars Catalogi ...'] - [Text] - [Div.t.p., 'Sexta Pars Catalogi ...'] - [Text] - [Blank leaf] - [Div. t.p., 'Septima Pars Catalogi ...'] - [Text] - [Blank leaf] - [Div. t.p., 'Octava pars Catalogi ...'] - [Text] - [Div. t.p., 'Nona pars Catalogi ...'] - [Text] - [Div. t.p., 'Decima pars Catalogi ...'] - [Text] - [Blank leaf] - [Div. t.p., 'Undecima Pars Catalogi ...'] - [Text] - [Div. t.p., 'Duodecima et ultima pars Catalogi ...'] - [Text]; [colophon]; Collectio codicu¯ huius operis - [Name and motto of publisher/bookseller].
Responsibility Note
The illustrations are not signed.
The printer is named in the colophon: 'Lugd. Impressum per honoratu¯ virum Dionysium de Harsy artis calcotype industria preditu¯. Anno a Christo nato Millesimo quingentesimo vigesimo nono. Duodecimo Kalendas Junias.'
The publisher is named on the verso of the last leaf, 'Symon Vincent', and in the royal privilege, ' ... Symoni Vincentio Bibliopolæ Lugdunensi, qui hoc opus sumptu suo excudendum curavit co¯cessum, finitum sit.'
The work is dedicated by Bartholomeus de Chasseneuz to 'Antonio de prato Senonen¯ . Cardinali ... Cancellario Francie ...'.
References
Harvard College Library Department Of Printing And Graphic Arts Catalogue Of Books And Manuscripts Part I: French 16th Century Books Compiled by Ruth Mortimer ... Volume I (1964), no. 136, p.170-1.
J.-H. Pignot, Un jurisconsulte au seizième siècle: Barthélemy de Chasseneuz (1880), esp. p.[143]-209.
Summary Note
The text is an account of honors and ranks in social, political and religious spheres.
The title-page title is set within an elaborate engraved border - which is repeated on the divisional title-pages of Parts 2-12 of the text. Parts 2-12 each have a full-page woodcut illustration on the verso of its divisional title-page; Part 1 has two full-page woodcuts (on leaves b5 verso and b6 recto), and 51 smaller heraldic devices and diagrams. In Part 11 leaf dDd3 verso carries a remarkable woodcut showing a printing-press in operation. (F. Madan's 'Early representations of the printing-press' in Bibliographica 1:2 (1895), p.223-48, records no representation of a press earlier than 1548 - apart from a few occurring as a printer's device or as part of some larger subject.) The verso of the last leaf carries the bookseller/publisher's name and motto 'Salve Sancta Facies' within a border showing events in Christ's Passion.
Provenance
The front pastedown is inscribed in pencil, 'S.A.H.', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81. Purchased for RA Library in 1879 (see RA Annual Report for 1879, p. 47).
Copy Note
Imperfect: lacks four of the first unnumbered leaves (signature B1-4).
Binding Note
16th-century white vellum; spine inscribed in ink, 'Catalogs Gloria Mundi' and 'R.A.'
Subject
Rank - Decorations (honor) - Heraldic motifs - Heraldry - Europe - France - History
Treatises - France - 16th century
Pictorial works - Woodcuts - France - 16th century