Le liure de la femme forte : et vertueuse declaratif du cantique de Salomon es Prouerbes au chapitre qui se comme[n]ce muliere[m] fortem quis inueniet : la quelle expositio[n] est extraicte de plusieurs excelle[n]s docteurs vtile et prouffitable a personnes religieuses & autres gens de deuocio[n] / faict & co[m]pose par vng religieulx de la reformation de lordre de Fonteurault a la requeste de sa seur religieuse reformee dudit ordre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Religieux de la reformation de lordre de Fontevrault, active 1499-1512, author.

Contributor:

Petit, Jean, active 1492-1530, printer.

Abbaye de Fontevrault, other.

Flora E. Haney Fund.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

William J. and Irma S. Roach Fund.

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Subjects (All):

Bible. Proverbs, XXXI--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Women--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Women--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Bible. Proverbs, XXXI.

Women--Conduct of life.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Early works.

Physical Description:

[520] pages ; 14 cm (16mo)

Other Title:

Livre de la femme forte

Fingerprint:

ntA- mion auir esst (3) 1517 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : Iehan Petit, [approximately 1517]

Notes:

Generally thought to have been printed approximately 1517 (see Moreau); Short-title catalogue of books printed in France and of French books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum dates it to approximately 1505.

Metal cuts: title vignette (printer's mark) and initials.

Addressed to the nuns of the Abbey of Fontevrault.

Signatures: A-V⁸ x-z⁸ a-i⁸ k⁴ (leaf k4 blank).

Without pagination.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy has manuscript shelf-mark ("I.B-55.") on front free endpaper.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Flora E. Haney Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William J. and Irma S. Roach Fund.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books.

Kislak Center copy bound in full "[e]arly 18th-century vellum (lgithly soiled), later manuscript spine title and label, evidence of four green linen ties, gauffered edges."--Bookseller's description.

Cited in:

Short-title catalogue of books printed in France and of French books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 68

Moreau, B. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, volume 2, entry 1657

Higman, F.M. Piety and the people, entry L 57

OCLC:

83061742