Accession number:
PML 66111.1
Published:
[Paris] : [Antoine Caillaut], [approximately 1490]
Description:
[6] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut) ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, with the special assistance of the Heineman Foundation, Mr. Frederick R. Koch, Mr. Jack Rudin, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Salomon, and Mr. Melvin R. Seiden, 1975.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r, with woodcut initial L.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Caillaut's type 14:112G.
Signatures: a⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut on leaf a1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 cm.
Binding:
19th-century French full citron goatskin, with inlay centerpiece design, over paper boards (19.5 x 13 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Doctrinal des nouvelles mariées
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Extensive contemporary French inscriptions, visible but illegible under UV (leaves a1r and a6v).
Provenance:
Raoul Léonor Lignerolles (1817-1893); his sale, Paris, part II, 5 March 1894, lot 1120; Edmée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso), no. 102; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from G. Heilbrun on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, with the special assistance of the Heineman Foundation, Mr. Frederick R. Koch, Mr. Jack Rudin, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Salomon, and Mr. Melvin R. Seiden, Feb. 1975.
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