Le premier [-second] volume de la toison dor
By: compose par reuerend pere en Dieu Guillaume par la permission Diuine iadis euesque de Tournay, abbe de sainct Bertin et chancellier de lordre de la Thoison dor du bon duc Philippe de Bourgongne Auquel toutes les vertus De magnanimite et iustice appartenans a lestat de noblesse sont contenus les hauts vertueux et magnanimes faicts tant des tres chrestiennes maisons de france, bourgongne et flandres que dautres roys et princes de lancien et nouueau testament
Edition: Nouuellement imprime a Paris.
Publisher: Francoys Regnault
Published: 1517
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Chivalry; Orders of knighthood and chivalry; Nobility; Historical Chronology; Early works to 1800; Toison d'or
Other titles: Histoire de la Toison d'Or de Guillaume Fillastre.
Work titles: Thoison d'Or
Notes: 2nd ed.

Colophon, v. 2, states that Anthoine Bonnemere printed this ed. for François Regnault, 1517. Cf. Lucien Goldschmidt sales catalog, ca. 1942, #288.

Printer's device on t.p.

Printed in double columns in gothic-bâtarde type.

Signatures: b⁸, c-z⁶, A⁸, B-E⁶, F⁸, G-X⁶, AA-QQ⁶, RR⁸.

Initials.

The grotesque initial letter on t.p. of v. 2 is thought to be by Antoine Vérard, from his first ed. of Colard Mansion's Ovid--Cf. Mortimer, French 16th c. books, v. 2, #364.

Woodcuts and initials by various unknown artists, some possibly taken from various editions of Colard Mansion's Ovid.

Bossuat, R.  Manuel bibliographique de la littérature françoise du moyen age, 1951, #5236-5238

Brunet II, p. 1258

Dict. de biographie française, 1975, v. 30, p. 1342