Les cronicques de normandie.

Accession number: 
PML 624
Uniform title: 
Chronicles: Normandy.
Published: 
Rouen : Guillaume Le Talleur, may mil .CCCC. quatrevingtz et sept [May 1487].
Description: 
[6], i-lxxxxvi, [6], lxxxxvii-Cxii, [3] (with mistakes) leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, with printer's mark, leaf A1r.
Imprint from preface, leaf A1v: Je Guillaume le talleur natif et demourant a la parroisse sainct Lo a rouen vouland de mon povoir reduire en memoire les cronicques de normendie a la louenge de la nation et a lonneur des ducz q[ui] pour certain temps ont este en icelle iay voulu imprimer lesdictes cronicques en mon hostel a rouen Lesquelles ont este accomplies au moys de may mil .CCCC. quatrevingtz et sept.
Printed in Le Talleur's types 1:100g and 2:112G.
For a note on the date, the types and the text, see CIBN
Signatures: A⁶; a-m⁸ mm⁶ n-o⁸ [p²]: 126 leaves, leaf [p]2 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Decorative grotesque woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.5 x 18.5 cm.
PML copy missing 6 leaves: A2-6 and [p]2 (blank).

Binding: 
19th-century English diced russia over paper boards (26.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports; repaired by Sanford and Clarke. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; marbled edges.
Variant Title: 

Chroniques de Normandie

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, and yellow (shell gold?) capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Inscription "gallia," 17th century (leaf A1r).

Provenance: 
Charles de Croy (1560-1612), 4th duc d'Arschot, inscription: "Au duc d'arschot 1584" (leaf A1r); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: re/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
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