Accession number:
PML 56267
Published:
[Paris] : On les vend a Paris en l'hostel de Estienne Roffet, dit le Faulcheur, sur le pont sainct Michel a lenseigne de la Rose, [1540-41?]
Credit:
Gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1966.
Description:
44 leaves : ill.
Notes:
Brunet, t. 4, col. 217, describes an 1840 edition of 40 leaves.
On leaf f2: Faict le quinziesme iour de Juing Mil cinq cens quarante vng. Privilege on leaf f4 is dated: le dixneufuiesme iour de Mars, lan de grace mil cinq cens quarante, et de nostre regne le vingtseptiesme.
Morgan copy printed on vellum.
Binding:
Brown morocco, gold tooled by Étienne Roffet.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Contemporary illumination, initials and line fillers, with coins painted in silver and gold.
Variant Title:
Ordonnances sur le faict des monnoyes, estat et reigle des officiers dicelles
Provenance:
Cardinal François de Tournon (1489-1562), illuminated armorial (leaf a1r); William Beckford (1760-1844), inherited by his daughter: Susan Euphemia Beckford Hamilton (1786-1859) and son-in-law Alexander Douglas Hamilton (1767-1852), 10th Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale: Sotheby's, part 3, 2 July 1883, lot 248; François Gustave Adolphe Guyot de Villeneuve (1852-1898), his sale, Paris, 26 March 1900, lot 1307 for Fr.2420; Lebeufe de Montgremont (1841-1918); Édouard Rahir (1862-1924), his sale, Paris, part 1, 7 May 1930, lot 177; Madame Theophile Belin, her sale, Paris, 20 Oct. 1934, lot 83; sale Lefevre & Guerin (Paris), 18 May 1965, lot 46; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1966.
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