Orus Apollo de Aegypte De la signification des notes hieroglyphiques des Aegyptiens
Subtitle: cest a dire des figures par les quelles ilz escripuoient leurs mysteres secretz, & les choses sainctes & diuines
By: nouuellement traduict de grec en francoys & imprime auec les figures a chascun chapitre
Contributors: Martin, Ian, -approximately 1553, attributed name, woodcutter; Cousin, Jean, approximately 1490-1560? attributed name, woodcutter; Goujon, Jean, active 16th century, attributed name, woodcutter; Kerver, Jacques, -1583, printer; Belz, Jean-Philippe,  1831-1917, binder; Essling, Victor Massena, prince d', 1836-1910, former owner
Publisher: Par Iacques Keruer
Published: 1543
Place of publication: On les uend a Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Egyptian language; Hieroglyphic Writing; Interpretation; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Orvs Apollo de Aegypte De la signification des notes hieroglyphiques des Aegyptiens; Signification des notes hieroglyphiques des Aegyptiens; Orus Apollo de Aegypte De la signification des notes hieroglyphiques des Aegyptiens.; De la signification des notes hieroglyphiques des Aegyptiens.
Work titles: Hieroglyphica
Notes: Colophon reads: Imprime a Paris pour Iaques Keruer libraire ... & fut acheve de imprimer le xxiij iour de Novembre Mil cinq cens.xliij.

Of the 197 woodcuts, seven are repeats and the last ten and their text were added by the translator, probably Jean Martin.  The 5 x 5 cm. woodcuts have been attributed to Jean Cousin (probably the elder) and to Jean Goujon.  Mortimer opines that at least two different artists were involved.  Cuts on a6v and a8v are mounted over misprinted ill.

Signatures: a-ńı

Mortimer, R.  French 16th cent., 314.

Murray, C.F.  French books, 282.

Praz, M. 17th-cent. imagery, p. 23-24.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in late-19th/early-20th-century blue morocco by Jean-Phillippe Belz (signed at front). The covers are panelled in gilt with the super-ex-libris of Victor Massena, Prince d'Essling, in their centers. The spine is panelled and tooled in gilt with the monogram "VM" in each compartment. The turn-ins are richly tooled in gilt and the doublures are of red watered silk.