Accession number:
PML 75835
Published:
[Poitiers] : [Jean Bouyer and Guillaume Bouchet], [approximately 1496-1497]
Description:
[12] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, with the special assistance of Mr. George B. Adams, Jr., Mr. Arthur Dean, Mr. Henry N. Ess, III, and Mrs. John Kean, 1979.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bouyer's type 8:96G. Printer's mark, leaf A1r.
Signatures: A-B⁶: 12 leaves. Signed to the sheet.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Two woodcuts: King David praying, leaf B5v and one of a hand (presumably), leaf B6r. The hand woodcut is also found in ISTC it00033500, ia00705900, ip00990000, and id00164800, all printed by Bouyer.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.2 x 14 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: B6; woodcut of a hand offset onto leaf B5v.
Binding:
19th-century dark red morocco over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Psalmi poenitentiales metrice compilati
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Maggs Bros., cat. 533 (1930), no. 55, supposedly acquired from Émile Nourry (i.e. Pierre Saintyves), who had separated a Sammelband of 11 rare Poitiers incunabula (see letter from Clifford Maggs in ChL 1596T file); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Malle on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, with the special assistance of Mr. George B. Adams, Jr., Mr. Arthur Dean, Mr. Henry N. Ess, III, and Mrs. John Kean, Feb. 1979.
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