"... correcto[rum] impresso[rum][que] engolisme die .xvii. mensis maii. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxxi."--Colophon., Description based on GW 2777., and Imperfect: Beinecke Library has fragments of 24 leaves from quires b, c, e and g. These fragments were removed from the original binding of the ms. Harangues et oraisons des anciens (Paris, ca. 1530), from the collection of Anne de Polignac, comtesse de Rochefoucauld (wife of François II), which later came into the possession of the duc de Rohan, and then was purchased at the Labitte sale by Comte Ernest Armand.
BEIN: Imperfect: slightly mutilated; apparently removed from a binding. and Proofsheets of the recto of ff. cxliij and ccliiij and the verso of fol. cclxiij.
BEIN ZZi 1980: F. 218 wanting. Initials painted in blue, red and gold, and first printed folio ornamented with painted border. Running titles painted in red. A few worm-holes and water-stains. Bound in boards covered with stamped leather.
BEIN ZZi 07: Bled, with two of the pages mostly cut away; holed, with some damage to text; apparently removed from a binding. and Proofsheet of eight pages. Unrecorded or unpublished edition (Kunne's type 71)?
Contra falsas litteras Francorum pro defensione honoris Serenissimi Romanorum Regis.
Description:
Binding: France? xix/xx c. Sewn into an xviiith century French curl marlbed paper wrapper., Imprint from Goff M-388., Pages [2] and [12] blank., and Sometimes attributed to Emperor Maximilian I.
Publisher:
Erhard Ratdolt,
Subject (Geographic):
France--Foreign relations--Holy Roman Empire, Germany, West. Augsburg. Ratdolt, Erhard. 1492, and Holy Roman Empire--Foreign relations--France