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Title
Ioannis Vrsini ... Opvs De Moribvs.
Created/published
Lvgdvni : Paganus, 1539.
Description
55 Seiten ; 8o
Associated name
Ursin, Jean, author.
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Call number
FAST ACC 271077 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "A curious handbook on the education of children, including notes on table manners, the art of speaking, the importance of good penmanship, as well as medical and dietary matters, by the Viennese poet and physician Jean Ursin. Written in verse for easy memorization, with expository text in prose, Ursin's collection of moral instruction for children concludes with a dialogue between the author and Virtue, and verse precepts on politesse in speech (Dum loqueris), how to conduct oneself at table (Inter convivas), and good behavior (In incessu). In spite of the glowing encomia composed by contemporaries (including by Lyonnais physician and translator Guillaume Regnod in the ad lectorem of our book) not much is known about Ursin's life, and he bears witness today largely through his four published works: a treatise on the plague, a work on the Distichs of Cato, a poem about animals, and the present Opus de Moribus, here offered in a third edition (first published 1535; second edition the following year).1 Not much better-known is Ursin's publisher, Thibaud Payen, whose life and output was examined in a dissertation by Morgane Perrier published in 2015. Octavo, 159 x 104 x 8 mm (binding), 154 x 101 x 3 mm (text block); A-C8, D4; 55 pp. Modern unlettered paper over thin boards. Interior: light foxing, minor transparent marginal damp. Baudrier IV, 221; Gültlingen VII, p. 15:57; USTC 126050; Perrier (Payen) 078; Pettegree 89621, finding a single institutional copy, at BM Autun; to this census we add copies at HB Rastatt and Bavarian SB, the latter perhaps a variant. Of the first and second editions only a single copy of each are known. Perrier, Morgan. Thibaud Payen, imprimeur lyonnais du XVIe siècle, les premières années: 1530-1545. University of Lyon, 2015. Ordered from WS Cotter Rare Books & Restoration D9282, 2019-02-06, email quote.
Folger accession
271077