Accession number:
PML 75063
Published:
[Lyon] : [Printer of the 'Champion des Dames' (Jean du Pré (printer of Lyons)?)], [approximately 1485-1490].
Description:
[4] leaves ; 18 cm. (4to)
Credit Line:
Gift of André Jammes, 1975.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the 'Champion des Dames''s type 1:121G (Du Pré's type 22:121G).
On the printer (designated by Proctor the Printer of the Complainte de l'âme damnée), see BMC VIII pp. lvi and 281.
GW and PML Checklist date as about 1485-1490; ISTC as 1488-1490.
Signatures: [1]⁴: 4 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Large woodcut (grotesque) initial L on title.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18 x 12 cm.
Binding:
19th-century gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (18 x 12 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Simier. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Dits des bêtes
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Jules Capron (1829-1897), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Brussels, 1875; Edmée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of André Jammes, 1975.
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