Livre de cleriadus et meliadice.

Accession number:

PML 17592

Published:

Imprime a Paris : pour Anthoine Verad, le huitiesme iour de may mil quatrecens quatrevingz [et] quinze [8 May 1495]

Description:

[1], ii-xcviii, [1] leaves (with mistakes) : illustrations ; 27.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.

Notes:

Title from caption, leaf a2r: Cy co[m]mence le prologue du livre de cleriadus et meliadice.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m7v: Cy finist le romant [et] cronique de Clreiadus et Meliadice fille au roy dengleterre. Nouvelleme[n]t imprime a Paris le huitiesme iour de may mil quatrecens quatrevingz [et] quinze. Pour Anthoine verad libraire demourant sur le pont nostre dame a limaige saint Jehan levangeliste, ou au palays au premier pilier devant la chapelle ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs de parlement.
Printed in Vérard's type 2:98G.
Signatures: a-m⁸: 96 leaves, leaves a1 and m8 blank.
Paper format: Probably chancery folio, but only known copy on vellum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19 cm.
PML copy on vellum.

Binding:

Modern blind-tooled full light brown goatskin over paper boards (27.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Plain vellum pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Cleriadus et Meliadice

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French illuminated scenes and floral borders, blue and white initials on red and gold ground, yellow capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations identifying illuminated scenes. No other notations in text.

Provenance:

S. Barbara de Corella, inscription, 17th century (leaf f8v); "Don Carlos por la duyna[?]," inscription, 17th century (leaf f2v); Pierre Jannet (d. 1870), sale, Oct. 1850 to Yemeniz for fr. 1250 (cf. Brunet); Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, 9 May 1867, lot 3850 for fr. 10.000; Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Paris, part I, 6 June 1878, lot 578 for fr. 19.100; Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Bibliothèque de Mello, his sale, Paris, 5 May 1890, lot 685; Robert Hoe (1839-1909), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Anderson Auction Company, part I, 24 April 1911, lot 758 to Quaritch for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased May 1911.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum printings (Printing)

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books