Cy commence le livre des ruraulx prouffitz du labour des cha[m]ps le quel fut comile en latin par Pierre des crescens bourgois de boulongne la grasse.

Accession number: 
PML 24153
Author: 
Crescenzi, Pietro de', approximately 1233-approximately 1320
Published: 
Imprime a Paris : par Jehan Bonhomme, le .xv. jour doctobre. Lan mil .CCCC. iiiixx et six [15 October 1486]
Description: 
[246] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1926.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf G10r: Cy fine ce present livre intitule des prouffitz cha[m]pestres et ruraulx Comile par maistre Pierre des crescens bourgeois de boulongne la grasse Et i[m]prime a paris par Jehan bon ho[m]me libraire de luniversite de paris le .xv. jour doctobre. Lan mil .CCCC. iiiixx et six.
Printed in Bonhomme's type 1:100G.
Signatures: [1]⁴; a-z A-F⁸ G¹⁰: 246 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
13 woodcuts, with repetitions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.5 x 18.5 cm.
PML copy missing 6 leaves: [1]/1-2, s4-5, v8, and G10; leaves [1]/2, s4-5, v8, and G10 replaced in facsimile with G10 partially torn away.

Binding: 
18th-century French sprinkled calf over paper boards (27.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports, with gilt tooled edges. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title: 

Le livre des ruraulx prouffitz

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Partial note at end, trimmed: "Lamour est m[...] avantage. pour [...] lelui qui est l[?...] loutaneu de l[?...] quil syme," 18th century (leaf G9v).

Provenance: 
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1750), inscription: "Biblioth. D. presidis Monestq[?] catal. inscr." (leaf a1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gottschalk, Dec. 1926.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Sprinkled calf bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books