Le liure de la femme forte et vertueuse declaratif du cantique de Salomon es prouerbes [...]. Utile et prouffitable a personnes religieuses [...] faict & c[om]pose par ung religieulx de la reformation de lordre de fonteurault [...].

16mo: [259 (of 260)] ff. (final f. [blank ?] missing).

19th-c. polished calf by Petit succ. de Simier, covers with triple gilt ruled border, richly gilt spine with 5 raised bands with morocco labels, gilt sides, a.e.g., gilt inside dentelles, silk marker (joints sl. rubbed, sm. def. at tail). Very good copy.

Extremely rare Petit ed. (6th recorded copy?) of a commentary on the Song of Songs by Fr. Le Roy (15th-16th c.), a monk of Fontevraud Abbey (Anjou), the famous double monastery with the graves of the English king Henry II, of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and of Richard the Lionheart. Woodcut mark on title. Printed in Gothic type.
Ref. BP16 13321 = Moreau II:1657 (4: BnF, BL, Berkeley, Sevilla). - Bechtel, Gothiques français L-220. - STC French (BL) 68. - Pettegree FB 33928 (5: 4 + Metz).
Prov. Léonce Dupont de Saint-Ouen (armorial bookpl.).