[Bible. N.T. Latin] Evangelium, Paris, 1541, Parisian binding by the Atelier au Coeur Empanaché for Pierre Séguier

2 works in 2 volumes, 8vo (147 x 95 mm), the second work bound at the start of the second volume, before the second part of the first work). Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-z⁸ aa-cc⁸ d⁴; a⁸; A-T⁸ V⁴ *⁴ â⁸ ê⁸: 212+8+176 leaves. Woodcut device on both title-pages, ruled in red. Sections indicated in the margin in ink throughout; lengthy annotation shaved at margin in early modern hand in Latin on A2v of second volume.

binding: Parisian binding by the Atelier au Coeur Empanaché (158 x 104 mm), ca. 1573-1574, olive brown morocco, gold tooled "à la fanfare", gold fillets around sides, interlacing strapwork forming central oval and geometric compartments, oak and laurel leafy branches, spiralling tendrils, buds, flowers, small azured tools, angel heads with wings, dots, bay and laurel wreath in central oval containing the letter P on the upper covers and S on the lower covers, each volume tooled to a different design, stubs from two pairs of ties, edges gilt.

provenance: Pierre I Séguier (1504-1580), gilt initials on covers and signature on title-page of first volume — Pierre III Séguier (1588-1672), sale, André Cramoisy, Bibliothecae Seguierianae catalogus, Paris, May 1686, p.2 — Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1715-1787), shelfmark "3.c.p.T.I.K.26" in ink on front pastedown of first volume, sale, Charles-Guillaume Leclerc, Catalogue des livres, imprimés et manuscrits, de la bibliothèque de feu monseigneur le prince de Soubise, Paris, 12 January-20 May 1789, lot 130 — Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), name lettered in gold at bottom of upper covers and inventory number "No. 1507.+" in each volume (the two volumes afterwards separated) — Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876), bookplate on front pastedown of second volume, his sale, Paris, 26-31 May 1879, lot 52 (second volume only) — Emmanuel Rodocanachi (1859-1934), sale, Georges Andrieux & Édouard Giard, Bibliothèque de feu M. Emmanuel Rodocanachi, membre de l'Institut, Paris, 7-8 May 1934, lot 41 (the two volumes reunited)— Étienne et Antoine Ader, Jean-Louis Picard & Claude Guérin, Livres anciens, manuscrits, incunables, Paris, 29 June 1970, lot 62 — Christie Manson & Woods, Illuminated manuscripts, early and valuable books, London, 22 June 1988, lot 228—Librairie Patrick et Elisabeth Sourget, Catalogue 6: Manuscrits enluminés et livres précieux: du moyen âge au cubisme: livres et manuscrits enluminés présentés par ordre chronologique de 1225 à 1958 (Chartres 1989), item 33. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: USTC 140194 & 153692; Darlow & Moule 6119; Hobson, Les Reliures à la fanfare, p. 15, pp.61-63