[PROVENCE - FORCALQUIER]. MASSÉ, Louis and others.
Statuta provinciae Forcalqueriique comitatum. Cum commentariis L. Massae I.C.... Accesserunt F. Fortii, I.C. Andini, in illa curia advocati, notae ad marginem. Cum indice. On à ajousté un livret, de la genealogie des Comtes de Provence, tiré du livre en Latin de feu Maitre F. de Clappiers, sieur de Vauvenargues, conseiller du Roy, en la Cour des Aydes, & Chambre des Comptes en Provence.
Aix-en-Provence, Nicolas Pillehotte & Jean Tholosan, 1598. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 8vo. Title printed in red & black with woodcut fleur de lis (coat-of-arms of the Départ. Alpes-de Haute-Provence), woodcut coat of arms of Forcalquier and initials in text; the second part with woodcut coat-of-arms of Henri IV on its part-title and woodcut initials. Later vellum with printed title on spine. [15], [1 blank], 216; [24] pp.
€ 1,950
Very rare first edition of the statutes of Forcalquier, a commune of France of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeast France. In the Middle Ages it was the capital of the Haute-Provence on the Durance. Valuable notes by Louis Massé, a scholar and lawyer at the court of the parliament of Provence, accompany these statutes, along with marginal notes by Fr. du Fort or Fortius.
The second part (with a separate title-page and pagination: Fr. Clappiers, Genealogie des comtes de Provence. Depuis l'an D.LXXVII. iusques à present ..., Aix-en-Provence, Nicolas Pillheotte & Jean Tholozan, 1598) is Fr. du Forts French translation of the Latin work on the genealogy of the Counts of Provence, from the year 577 to 1598, half way through the reign of Henri IV. This "Appendix", announced on the first title-page, is often lacking from the present edition.
The two parts together form the first work printed by the official printer of the Provence at the time, Jean Tholosan who printed it together with Nicolas Pillehotte who had been a bookseller in Lyon.
Title-page slightly frayed and soiled, otherwise in fine condition. Arnoult, Bibl. bibliogr. aureliana, p. 21, no. 4 & p. 24, no. 1; Brunet II, col. 387 (and 78); Camus, Lettres sur la profession d'avocat, 599; Gouron-Terrin, Bibliogr. des coutumes de France, 1879; Saffroy III, 48062; not in Adams, Caswell & Sipkov.
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