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MARTIAL D'AUVERGNE. Aresta amorum LI. French text with Latin commentary by Benoît de Court. 430, [16] pages, including final leaf with printer's device. 8vo, 17th-century red morocco with gilt triple-fillet border on covers and in spine compartments, spine darkened, front joint worn; contents browned, early signature on title and inscriptions on last page of text. Bookplates of English lawyer and politician Charles George Milnes Gaskell (1842-1919) and Douglas Maxwell Moffat. Lyons: Seb. Gryphius, 1546
Popular collection of 51 cases heard before an imaginary Court of Love, originally published circa 1500; this edition includes a 52nd Arrêt on wearing masks. Adams M687; Gay-Lemonnyer I, 269; Tchemerzine (1977) IV, 591b.
