Larbre des batailles.

Accession number:

PML 506

Author:

Bonnor, Honoré.

Published:

Imprime a Paris : par Anthoine Verard, le viii. iour de iuing Mil.cccc.quatre vingtz et treize [8 June 1493]

Description:

[155] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

The author's real name is Bouvet according to G. Ouy, in Romania 80 (1959), pp.255-57 (CIBN).
Title from half-title page, leaf a2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf t6r: Cy finist le livre intitule larbre des batailles imprime a pari[s] le viii. io[ur] de iuing Mil.cccc.quatre vi[n]gtz [et] treize par anthoine verard librarire demoura[n]t a paris sus le pont nostre dame a lenseigne saint iehan leva[n]geiliste ou au palais au premier pillier devant la chappelle ou lon chante la messe me messeigneurs les presidens. [Vérard's device]
Printed in Vérard's type 13:118G.
Signatures: ¹a⁸; a-n⁸ o⁶ p-[long-s]⁸ t⁶: 155 leaves, leaf ¹a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
116 illustrations, with repetitions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.6 x 16.9 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: ¹a1 (blank) and a2, replaced in facsimile (according to Sydney Cockerell notes); several leaves remargined.

Binding:

19th-century English blind- and gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (25 x 18 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

L'arbre des batailles

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials only sporadically realized. Annotations: One contemporary inscription: "Quelle chose est bataille" (leaf a1r).

Provenance:

William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, laid-in (rear endleaf); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: sm/-/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books