BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

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     Le théâtre de l’art de charpentier by Mathurin Jousse, followed by "Bref traité des cinq ordres de colonnes" was reprinted again in 1664, that time by the Georges Griveau the Younger's widow. He had died before 1663, after his own mother had left him the workshop in 1659. The title and the dedication were rewritten for the circumstance. Unlike the 1659 publication, the dedication is followed at the bottom of the page by a sonnet "L’auteur à son livre" which appeared in the original 1627 edition and was deleted from the following editions (1650, 1659). The 1664 edition includes the 1659 pagination corrections and in addition corrects an error which remained in the numbering : page "197" is correctly numbered "167". On the other hand the missing number of the "XLIV^e figure" (p. 73) reestablished in 1659 does not appear. This new reprint confirms the great success of Jousse’s treatise on carpentry during the second half of the 17^th century.

Frédérique Lemerle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique,
Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) – 2008

Critical bibliography

F. Le Bœuf, "Mathurin Jousse, maître serrurier à La Flèche et théoricien d'architecture (vers 1575-1645)", In situ, 1, 2001.

P. Le Bœuf, "La Bibliothèque de Mathurin Jousse : une tentative de reconstitution", In situ, 1, 2001.

E. Pasquier & V. Dauphin, Imprimeurs et libraires de l’Anjou, Angers, Société anonyme des éditions de l’Ouest, 1932, pp. 311-326.

É.-C. Pecquet, "Mathurin Jousse, architecte et ingénieur de la ville de La Flèche au XVII^e siècle", Cahiers Fléchois, 6, 1984, pp. 28-41.

J.-M. Pérouse de Montclos, L’architecture à la française, XVI^e, XVII^e, XVIII^e siècles, Paris, Picard, 1982, pp. 96-99.

R.-A. Weigert, Inventaire du Fonds Français. Graveurs du XVII^e siècle..., Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 5, 1968, "Jousse (Mathurin)", pp. 615-617.