BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

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     The Rare Books collection of the Médiathèque François Mitterand in Poitiers has a copy of the Traité de l’architecture of Julien Mauclerc revised by Pierre Daret (AM 509) in which the name of the editor and the date of publication have been replaced by the comment "chez Nicolas Berey, enlumineur du Roi, proche les Augustins, aux deux Globes. M DC LXIII.", glued to the title page. This copy is similar to those published in 1648 : one finds in it the privilege with the same date and the same misprint- “Ronseil” for “Conseil”- as well as the same date of end of publication : July 15, 1646. Only the page order is different : the text is assembled at the beginning of the volume and the plates come after. There are good grounds for believing that Nicolas Berey put on the market some unsold copies from 1648. To our knowledge there remains only one copy of this “edition”.

Yves Pauwels (Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) - 2006

Critical bibliography

J. Châtenay, La vie intellectuelle en Aunis et Saintonge de 1540 à 1610, La Rochelle, Éditions du Quartier Latin, 1959.

J. Levron, René Boyvin, graveur angevin du XVI^e siècle, Angers, Petit, 1941.

S. Lhopiteau, Pierre Daret, graveur, éditeur, marchand, peintre : étude monographique, Dissertation, Université de Paris-IV (Paris-Sorbonne), 2005.

M. Marrache-Gouraud, "Cabinets et curieux du Poitou, aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles", P. Martin & D. Moncond'huy (ed.), Curiosité et cabinets de curiosités, Neuilly, Atlande, 2004, pp. 93-108.

Y. Pauwels, "Hans Blum et les Français, 1550-1650", Scholion. Mitteilungsblatt der Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, 6, 2010, pp. 77-88.

D. Thomson, "Architecture et humanisme au XVI^e siècle. Le Premier Livre d’Architecture de Julien Mauclerc", Bulletin monumental, 158, 1980, pp. 7-40.

D. Thomson, "Le Premier Livre d’Architecture de Mauclerc, à La Rochelle, chez Jérôme Haultin en 1600", S. Deswarte-Rosa (ed), Sebastiano Serlio à Lyon. Architecture et imprimerie, Lyon, Mémoire active, 2004, p. 471.