Le tableau de Cebes de Thebes, ancien pholosophe et disciple de Socrates : auquel est paincte de ses couleurs, la uraye ymaige de la uie humaine, & quelle uoye l'homme doibt elire, pour paruenir à uertu, & perfaicte science / premierement escript en Graec, & maintenant expose en rythme Francoyse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferlato, Jean.

Cebes, of Thebes

Janot, Denis, -1544, printer.

Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1568, bookseller.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Thibaron-Echaubard, binder.

Standardized Title:

Pinax of Cebes. French (Middle French)

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Emblem books, French.

Aphorisms and apothegms--Early works to 1800.

Aphorisms and apothegms.

Dialogues, Greek--Early works to 1800.

Dialogues, Greek.

Allegories--Early works to 1800.

Allegories.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Genre:

Signed bindings (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Thibaron-Echaubard (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

128 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 14 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : On les uend en la grand salle du Palais en la boutique de Gilles Corrozet, 1543.

Contents:

Le Tableau de Cebes de Thebes

La Volupté vaincue

Sensuyuent plusieurs emblemes.

Notes:

Date of imprint precedes place of publication on title page.

Without pagination.

Work not actually composed by Cebes of Thebes. It was probably written by a pseudonymous author of the 1st or 2nd century.

Janot's printer's device in colophon.

Translated into French by Corrozet.

Also includes Corrozet's "La Volupté vaincue" and "Emblemes du tableau de Cebes"

Signatures: A-H⁸.

Colophon reads: Imprimé nouuellement à Paris, par Denys Ianot, imprimeur du roy en langue francoyse, 1543.

On leaf A1v: Et fut acheué d'imprimer cedit liure le vingtsixiesme iour de iuillet, mil cinq cents quarente trois [26 July 1543]

"Le tableau de Cebes de Thebes" has 13 full page emblematic woodcuts, on the recto, followed by a motto and verse. Woodcuts included in pagination. Leaf A4r has woodcut, titled "Le pelerin visitant le Temple de Saturne, & du Tableau qu'il y veit" signed with the initial "F" or monogram "IF", usually identified as Jean Ferlato. -- Cf. Mortimer, R. French 16th century books, 132 (describing another edition, published in 1543)

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full crushed red morocco with gilt double fillet border and gilt dentelle turn-ins; gilt binder's stamp "Thibaron-Echaubard" on bottom turn-in of left board; al edges gilt.

Culture Class Collection copy wanting leaves H7 and H8 (presumably blank)

Cited in:

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, I, col. 1711

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, C303

Adams C1206

Contains:

Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1568. Emblemes du tableau de Cebes.

OCLC:

31254407