Sensuivent les ditz moraulx des philosophes.

Accession number:

PML 44864

Published:

Paris : Antoine Vérard, 27 April 1486.

Description:

[96] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1953.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r:
Imprint from colophon, leaves o3v-4r: Cy finissent les ditz moraulx des philosophes. [leaf o4r] les quelz fure[n]t imprimez le xxvii iour davril .mil cccc.lxxxvi. pour anthoine verad libraire demoura[n]t a paris sur le po[n]t n[ost]re dame a limage saint iehan levva[n]geliste [sic] ou au palaiz au premier pillier devant le chappelle du roy.
Printed in Vérard's type 9:95G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e-k⁶/⁸ l-n⁶ o⁴: 96 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Guillaume de Tignonville.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 13.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1r (half-title page), replaced in facsimile, and bottom margins of leaves a2-3 repaired.

Binding:

19th-century French blind-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (20 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duru, 1861. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Title in ISTC: Dits des philosophes

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Modern rubrication (perhaps about 1861 when rebound since included on facsimile half-title page), alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks and red marginal ruling. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus, June 1953.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books