I. PAULI IOVII NOVOCOMENSIS VITÆ DUODECIM VICECOMITUM MEDIOLANIPRINCIPUM.--EX BIBLIOTHECA REGIA.--LUTETIÆ. EX OFFICINA ROB. STEPHANI, TYPOGRAPHI REGII. M. D. XLIX.
Quarto of 199 pages. Paris, 1549. This book is a faithful copy of the manuscript of the same work, preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale.[396] It is embellished with beautiful letters in grisaille with criblé background, and with portraits of the ten dukes of Milan who figure in the manuscript. These portraits, all marked with the Lorraine cross, are faithful reproductions of those in the manuscript, but on a smaller scale. Following is a list of the portraits, taken by Paulus Jovius from originals which existed in his day and of which he gives, in each case, the place where it may be found:--
1. Otho archiepiscopus. 2. Matthæus magnus. 3. Galeacius primus. 4. Actius. 5. Luchinus. 6. Joannes archiepiscopus. 7. Galeacius secundus. 8. Barnabas. 9. Joannes Galeacius primus. 10. Philippus.
There is a French translation of this book, printed in 1552 by Charles Estienne (Robert was then in exile at Geneva), with the same plates. As for the Latin version, it was reprinted several times, in different places, with engravings on copper copied from those of Robert Estienne's edition.
Quarto; Paris, Jacques Roffet, called 'Le Faulcheur,' 1549.
This book, of 38 leaves, consists of two parts: the 'Entrée du roi,' of 28 leaves, and the 'Entrée de la reine,' in which the pagination is repeated, but with different signatures. The privilege, dated Chantilly the last day of March, 1548 (1549 new style), grants to Roffet the sole right to have printed and to offer for sale during one year 'the treatise _which is to be written_ concerning the recent, joyful entrée,' etc.
There were two editions of this book, or, at all events, there are some copies with additions to the second part--after folio 34. There are also copies with the imprint of Jean Dallier. A list of the engravings follows:
1. A portico, above which we see Hercules holding, bound together by the ears (by means of a chain issuing from his mouth and representing eloquence), a wood-chopper, a soldier, a priest, and a noble (folio 4). I can find no mark on this piece, but it is a reproduction of the Gallic Hercules of 'Champ fleury.'