Projet d'un nouveau cérémonial françois
Subtitle: augmenté d'un grand nombre de pièces qui n'ont pas été publiées par M. Godefroy
Contributors: Godefroy, Théodore, 1580-1649; Prault, Pierre, 1685-1768
Publisher: De l'imprimerie de Prault pere, quai de Gêvres, au Paradis
Published: 1746
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Visits of state; Marriages of royalty and nobility; Rites and ceremonies; Early works to 1800; Sacraments; Pageants; Coronations; Festivals
Notes: Signatures: pi⁴ A-N⁴ O².

Author's name from Barbier.

Woodcut title vignette, head- and tail-piece, initials.

Printed in double columns with the outer columns on each page blank for reader's notes.

An account of various French ceremonies from the 9th to the early 17th century, such as births, marriages, funerals, ceremonial entries, feasts, coronations, sacraments, receptions, etc. Jolly's goal was to update and complete Godefroy's "Cérémonial françois" published in 1649.

Barbier, A.A.  Ouvrages anonymes, vol. 3, col. 1065

Brunet II, column 1638

Bound in marbled paper-covered boards; calf spine with gilt label; the half-title page includes an inscription by M. Guichard, libraire, who edited the title to read "Projet d'une nouvelle édition du cérémonial françois", dated 1806, and his annotations on 2 p. bound in at end;  annotations in different hands on the title-page verso and in several of the blank columns; loosely inserted is a handwritten tabular index of the various types of ceremonies listed in the book.