Praxis criminis persequendi, elegantibus aliquot figuris illustrata / Ioanne Millaeo Boio Syluigniaco ... authore.

Parisiis : Prostant apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1541.

[4], 85 leaves : illustrations ; 31 cm (folio)

Signatures: aa⁴ a-k⁸ l⁶ (l6 blank).
Type ornament precedes the title on the title page which also has three Biblical quotations, one within a woodcut cartouche.
Woodcut arms on the verso of the title page; criblé initials.
Thirteen full page woodcut illustrations attributed to Geoffroy Tory, Jean Jollat, Jacquemin Woeiriot or Oronce Fine. The woodcut on leaf 48v is identified as by Geoffroy Tory with the Lorraine cross.
Printed for Colin himself and for the L'Angelier brothers. There is a separate issue with the L'Angelier imprint, and one with both Colin and L'Angelier in the imprint.

Renouard, P. Bibliographie des éditions de Simon de Colines, 1520-1546, p. 342-343.
Harvard College Library. Catalogue of books and manuscripts. French 16th century books, 374.
Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), III, 1715.

Bound in brown levant morocco; blind tooled triple borders with gilt fleurs-de-lis at the corners; inner gilt borders. Bound by Gruel.

RBCAG

France -- Paris.

KJV8415.8 .M55 1541 Folio

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