Du Corroy, Pandecta legis Evangelicae, Lyon, 1547, Lyonese panel stamp binding

DU CORROY, SIMON. Pandecta legis Evangelicae. Simone a Corroy, professione Celestino, autore. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1547 [bound with:]

DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIANUS. Monopanton, id est, unum ex omnibus D. Pauli Epistolis per locos communes, seu certarum materiarum titulos, summo tum judicio tum diligentia digestis. Dionysio Richel Cartusiano autore. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1547

These works are bound together in a contemporary Lyonese gilt panel-stamped binding with gilt and gauffered edges.

2 works in one volume, 16mo (122 x 67 mm). Roman and italic type. 29 lines plus headline. Collation: a-y⁸; a-o⁸: 176 + 112 leaves (final leaves of both works blank). Woodcut printer's device on both title-pages, woodcut initials, ruled in red. (Light spotting and staining, tear without loss to k1 of second work, endpaper partially stuck to final leaf.)

Binding: Lyonnese panel-stamped binding (129 x 80 mm), brown calf, gilt panel stamp with four central concentric circles, extending outward in a very elegant and simple "maze" pattern, spine with 4 bands, gilt rosette in compartments, edges gilt and gauffered. (Repaired at edges, rebacked neatly to style, joints very weak, gilt edges rubbed.)

Provenance: Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris — E.K. Schreiber, Catalogue Thirty-Three (New York, 1996), item 39. Acquisition: Purchased in 1997 from E.K. Schreiber, New York. References: USTC 149850 & 149839; von Gültlingen V: Gryphe 977 & 986; Jean Toulet, "L'École lyonnaise de reliure" in Le siècle d'or de l'imprimerie lyonnaise (Paris, 1972), pp. 131-158, p.151 (this copy)