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C'est l'ordre qui a este tenu a la nouvelle et joyeuse entrée...Henry deuzieme


Entrée. Henri II into Paris, June 16, 1549.
Illustrated by: Jean Goujon (French, about 1510–about 1565)
After: Jean Cousin (French, about 1490–about 1560)
After: Philibert de L'Orme (French, about 1515–1570)
Printer: Jean Dallier (French, 16th century)
1549
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 11 woodcuts
Dimensions Overall: 24.2 x 17.7 x 2.5 cm (9 1/2 x 6 15/16 x 1 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Fund
Accession Number42.494.1
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Jean Dallier, 1549

Catalogue Raisonné Brunet II, 997-98; Mortimer, French, 202 (Roffet issue); Gourary 340
Description(Paris: Jean Dallier, [1549]) Quarto; 42 leaves; seventeenth-century gilt-stamped brown calf, brown cloth box.

Illustrations: obelisk on rhinoceros (fol. 11r), richly-garbed horseman, thought to be the king (19r), triumphal arches (cf. plate betw. fols. 36 & 37)

First edition, split between two printers, Dallier and Jacques Roffet; see Mortimer for discussion. The MFA issue is the "augmented" Dallier edition with four more leaves. The text is attributed to Hardouyn Chauveau. A description of the printers passing in review during the entry is included on fol. e2r.

BOUND with: C'est l'ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre & couronnement...Catharine de Medici, (Paris: Jean Dallier, 1549) [often bound with entry and here considered as related], and La genealogie des princes de Savoye, 1560 (42.494.2)
Provenance1942, sold by Otto H. Ranschburg (dealer; b. 1899 - d. 1985), New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 12, 1942)