LE ROY, François Livre de la femme forte et vertueuse... Lot 11

[LE ROY, François] Livre de la femme forte et vertueuse declaratif du cantique de salomon es prouerbes [...]. La quelle expositio[n] est extraicte de plusieurs excelle[n]s docteurs [...] faict & co[m]pose par vng religieusx de la reformation de lordre de fonteurault [...]. Paris J. Petit [1517] 8vo: [259] ff. (lacking final blank). 19th-c. crimson morocco by Petit ("succ[esseur] de Simier"), covers with blind corner pieces, gilt-titled spine with blind ornaments, gilt sides, a.e.g., gilt inside borders, marbl. endpapers, cloth marker. Nice copy. Extr. rare (6th recorded copy?) early ed. (1st 1501) of a mystical interpretation and paraphrase of the Song of Songs by Fr. Le Roy (fl. 1500), a priest from the Order of Fontevrault. Woodcut mark on title. Printed in gothic type. Ref. Bechtel (Gothiques) L-220. - BP16 103321 = Moreau II:1657. - Pettegree FB 33928. - STC French (BL) 68. - Not in Adams. Prov. M.G & A.W. (collector's tickets).