[EARLY WOMAN PUBLISHER ~ 1686]. Traite du corps et du sang du Seigneur
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- Paris: Chez la veuve d'Edme Martin, & Jean Boudot, 1686
Paris: Chez la veuve d'Edme Martin, & Jean Boudot, 1686. First edition thus. Very good. 12mo (168 x 96 mm). 1 f., 291, [7] pp. Title-page (a singleton) invisibly tipped onto A1. Contemporary French speckled calf, five raised bands on spine, compartments attractively gilt. Faint scratches to covers but overall in excellent condition, quite clean and fresh internally, in a binding with few signs of wear. PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY MARIE (CRAMOISY) MARTIN, WIDOW OF THE PRINTER-BOOKSELLER EDME MARTIN II, AND DAUGHTER OF CLAUDE CRAMOISY WHO WAS ALSO IN THE TRADE. DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE WORK OF BERTRAM OF CORBIE HAD BEEN PLACED ON THE INDEX IN 1559, SHE NONETHELESS RECEIVED THE ROYAL APPROBATION, HAD IT PRINTED IN HER OWN SHOP, AND PUBLISHED IT. THIS IS THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF JEAN BOILEAU'S EDITION, HERE IN LATIN AND FRENCH.
Marie Cramoisy married Edme Martin in 1645; following his death in 1670, she took over all printing and publishing operations, which she ran single-handedly until 1677, at which time she entrusted the printing business to her son Gabriel I Martin. After this date, she ran the bookselling business until at least 1696 (her name no longer appears on the 1697 and 1701 lists of "libraires"). She worked in partnership with her son-in-law Jean I Boudot from 1682 to 1693, and from 1686 with her son Etienne Martin. While her dates of birth and death are not known, it is believed that she was still alive in 1713.
THE TEXT is a controversial treatise on the Eucharist by the theologian Bertram of Corbie (d. 868), which in 1050 was ordered to be burned by the Council of Vercelli. At least one manuscript of the work survived and the text was rediscovered in the 16th century by German Protestant reformers and printed in 1531. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "A wrong interpretation of the words 'figura' and 'veritas,' and a few ambiguous passages have given rise to the opinion among a few Catholics and most Protestants that Ratramnus taught a merely symbolic presence of Christ in the Eucharist. [...] For this reason it was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books in 1559, but was removed in 1900."
PROVENANCE: Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of William Trumbull (1708-1760), son of the noted bibliophile Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), British dignitary and M.P.
REFERENCES: Bibale Database, "Cramoisy, Marie (Widow of Edme Martin II; active in 1645-1714)." Renouard XVIIe siecle, p. 306. Arbour, Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France (1470-1870) p. 371.
Marie Cramoisy married Edme Martin in 1645; following his death in 1670, she took over all printing and publishing operations, which she ran single-handedly until 1677, at which time she entrusted the printing business to her son Gabriel I Martin. After this date, she ran the bookselling business until at least 1696 (her name no longer appears on the 1697 and 1701 lists of "libraires"). She worked in partnership with her son-in-law Jean I Boudot from 1682 to 1693, and from 1686 with her son Etienne Martin. While her dates of birth and death are not known, it is believed that she was still alive in 1713.
THE TEXT is a controversial treatise on the Eucharist by the theologian Bertram of Corbie (d. 868), which in 1050 was ordered to be burned by the Council of Vercelli. At least one manuscript of the work survived and the text was rediscovered in the 16th century by German Protestant reformers and printed in 1531. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "A wrong interpretation of the words 'figura' and 'veritas,' and a few ambiguous passages have given rise to the opinion among a few Catholics and most Protestants that Ratramnus taught a merely symbolic presence of Christ in the Eucharist. [...] For this reason it was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books in 1559, but was removed in 1900."
PROVENANCE: Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of William Trumbull (1708-1760), son of the noted bibliophile Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), British dignitary and M.P.
REFERENCES: Bibale Database, "Cramoisy, Marie (Widow of Edme Martin II; active in 1645-1714)." Renouard XVIIe siecle, p. 306. Arbour, Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France (1470-1870) p. 371.