Le gouuernement des princes. Le tresor de noblesse. Et les fleurs de valere le grant.

Accession number:

PML 525

Author:

Pseudo Aristotele.

Published:

Imprimes a Paris : par Antoine Verard, Lan de grace mil quattre cens quattre vingtz et .xvii. le .xv. iour de septembre [15 September 1497]

Description:

[4], i-lxxv, [1] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 26.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf ¹A1r.
Imprint from first colophon, leaf ¹A4r: Le tiers est appelle les fleurs de valere le grant ... ont este imprimes a paris par Anthoine verard demourant sur le pont nostre dame a lenseigne de sainct iehan leva[n]geliste/ ou au palais deva[n]t la chapelle ou len cha[n]te la messe de messeigneurs les presidesn. Lan de grace mil quattre cens quattre vingtz [et] .xvii. le .xv. iour de septembre.
Second colophon, leaf N3r: Icy fine le livre de gouverneme[n]t des pri[n]ces/ du tresor de noblesse/ [et] des fleurs de valere le gra[n]t. Imprime a paris par anthoine verard.
Printed in Vérard's types 3:117G and 8:430G.
Signatures: ¹A⁴; A-C⁶ D⁴; E-H⁶ I⁸; K-M⁶ N⁴: 80 leaves, (leaf N4 blank?).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Le gouvernement des princes from the Latin translation of Philippus Tripolitanus.
The Trésor de noblesse is a French translation by Hugues de Salves of Diego de Valera's Espejo de verdadera nobleza; cf. M. Prinet, Le Trésor de noblesse, in Le Biliographe moderne, 1910, pp. 84-89. Les Fleurs de Valere is a résumé by Jean de Hangest of the French translation of Valerius Maximus by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse (CIBN).
For variants see CIBN A-557.
1 woodcut.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.5 x 18.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: N4 (blank?).

Binding:

19th-century gilt-tooled stiff parchment over paper boards (26.5 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.

Variant Title:

Gouvernement des princes

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Unidentified early French inscription (leaf ¹A1r).

Provenance:

Thebault Dreux, signatures, 15th/16th century (leaves ¹Ar and N3r); unidentified Sotheby's sale, lot 631; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 242, 9/12/96 (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books