Accession number:
PML 507
Published:
Imprime a Paris : par Jehan du Pre, le xxii. jour de Juing Mil.CCCC.iiiixx. [et] xiii [22 June 1493]
Description:
[92] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (4to)
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 a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m6r: Cy fine le livre intitule larbre des batailles. Imprime a Paris par Jehan du pre demourant en la grant rue saint Jaques: le xxii. jour de Juing Mil.CCCC.iiiixx. [et] xiii.
Du Pré's device, leaf a1r.
Printed in du Pré's types 4:135G and 17:106/107G.
Signatures: a-k⁸ l-m⁶: 92 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19 cm.
Binding:
19th-century stiff vellum (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title:
L'arbre des batailles
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Arthur Young, F.R.S. (1741-1820); his sale, Sotheby's, 1 Dec. 1896, lot 672 to Pickering (for Bennett?) for £21; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), bibliographical notes: No. 240, 3/12/96 and price code: ow/-/- +com (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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