Accession number:
PML 78692
Published:
[Lyons] : [Guillaume Le Roy], [approximately 1478-1480]
Description:
[32] leaves ; 23 cm. (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Fellows Endowment Fund, Fellows Fund, and with the specialy assistance of Mrs. Francis Kettaneh and Mrs. Jmaes H. Ripley, 1986.
Notes:
Title and imprint from ISTC. Dated by GW to about 1479.
Printed in Le Roy's type 1**:117G.
Signatures: a-d⁸: 32 leaves, leaf d8 blank.
Paper format: Median quarto.
Explicit corrected in manuscript, probably in print shop, to include "de[n]" (leaf d8r): Cy finist ce prese[n]t livre qui est die mellibee [et] pru[de[n]]ce.
Woodcut initials.
On the translation, attributed to Jean de Meung and Renaud de Louens (Louhans), see Histoire littéraire de la France 37 (1936/38) pp. 488-506.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 22.7 x 16.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: d8 (blank).
PML copy with bottom margin torn away and repaired (leaf d7), text unaffected.
Binding:
Modern paper wrapper. Sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary arithmetical note, leaf a8v.
Provenance:
Pierpont Morgan Library, purcashed from Martin Breslauer on the Fellows Endowment Fund, Fellows Fund, and with the specialy assistance of Mrs. Francis Kettaneh and Mrs. James H. Ripley, 1986.
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