Bound and whipped by royal command
ONCE owned by a member of Henri III’s ‘Compagnie des Confrères de la Mort’, this psalmbook, right, a 1586 Parisian edition of Le pseaultier de David..., is bound in French sombre morocco.
Tooled in silver, it has a central panel of a skeleton holding an hourglass and scythe on a semé, or…