De l'origine des bovrgongnons, et antiqvité des estats de Bovrgongne, devx livres
Subtitle: plus, des antiquitez d'Autun, liure 1 : de Chalon, 2 : de Mascon, 3 : de l'abbaye & ville de Tournus, 1
By: par Pierre de Sainct Ivlien ...
Contributors: Tamisier, Pierre, 1541-1591; Bredin, Edouard, 16th cent; Rancurel, Raymond, 16th cent
Publisher: Chez Nicolas Chesneav
Published: 1581
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 674
Subjects: Maps; Early works to 1800; Antiquities; History
Other titles: De l'origine des bourgongnons, et antiquité des estats de Bourgongne, deux livres
Notes: In 6 parts, each, except the first, with special title page; paging and signatures continuous.

Pts. 2 and 3 have imprint date 1580.

Chesneau's oak tree device on t.p., incorporating his mark with the monogram NC; a smaller variant appears on the special t.p.'s. Headpieces. Tailpieces that incorporate Chesneau's mark with mongram. Initials.

Saint-Julien's arms appear on p. [24], 1st sequence, printed in red and black. The cut on p. 80 is a circular diagram of the governance of Burgundy, with its arms at the center.

The 6 double-page maps are birds-eye views of Dijon (preliminary gathering i²), Beaune (preliminary gathering õ²), Autun (following p. 192), Macon (following p. 230), Chalon (following p. 374), Tournus (following p. 500 and signed on the verso u). The first two are hinged in at the center fold, the remainder bound in at the left margin and folded. The map of Dijon is signed by Edoardus Bredin and dated 1574. The maps of Macon and Chalon are signed by R. Rancurel[lus], and that of Chalon is dated 1573. Mortimer notes that the maps had appeared previously in de Belleforest's revision of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographie universelle, published by Chesneau and Michel Sonnius in 1575.

Colophon: Achevé d'imprimer a Paris par Henry Thierry, maistre imprimeur, le 10. iour de Iuin, 1581.

Descriptive text on verso of maps of Dijon and Beaune; 4 sonnets by Pierre Tamisier on verso of map of Tournus.

Mortimer, R.  French 16th cent., 479

Sloan candidate lp Tier 3

Binding: later vellum.

The order of the pts. as published differs somewhat from that given on the t.p., and each pt. of Library's copy except the 5th is annotated at the end with directions to another pt. Thus below the text on p. 184 there occurs: Passer à la page 541. pour trouver le second livre de l'origine des Bourgongnons.