Compendium Roberti Gaguini super Francorum gestis : ab ipso recognitum & auctum.

Accession number: 
PML 542
Author: 
Gaguin, Robert, 1433-1501.
Published: 
In inclyto Parrisiorum gymnasio : Impressit ... Thielmannus Kerver [and Georg Wolf] ... impensis ... bibliopolarum Durandi Gerlerii & Joannis Parvi, M. quinge[n]tesimo. Ad idus ianuarias [13 January 1500]
Description: 
[6], I-CLXIX, [5] leaves ; 28.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf Aa1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf F6r: [Kerver's device] Pręclarissimu[m] hoc de francorum gestis co[m]pendiu[m] multis notatu dignissimorum additionibus libriq[ue] unius accessione locupletatu[m]: & non segni accuratione a mendis tersu[m]: Impressit diligens ac p[er]itus chalcographus Thielma[n]nus kerver in inclyto parrisioru[m] gymnasio impe[n]sis optimoru[m] bibliopolarum Durandi gerlerii & Ioa[n]nis parvi. Anno gr[ati]ę que[m] iubileu[m] voca[n]t a natali christiano. M. quinge[n]tesimo. Ad idus ianuarias.
Printed in Kerver's types 10:92R, 15:79R, and 17:180G.
PML Checklist, Pellechet, Polain and IGI assign the printing to Wolf in company with Kerver.
Signatures: Aa⁶; a-z A-F⁶: 180 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius.
Woodcut of Sts. Denis and Remy representing the kingdom of France on leaves Aa1r and F5v.
GW notes variants, including much resetting.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.4 cm.

Binding: 
Modern blind-tooled full reddish-brown calf over paper boards (28.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Deborah Evetts, 1973. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title: 

Compendium de origine et gestis Francorum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Henri Jacques Nompar de Caumont, due de La Force (1675-1726) (previous binding with armorial); unidentified inscritiption: "Catal. G 1858" (front endleaf 1 verso); Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), with shelf mark: 33.B (front endleaf 1 verso); his sale, Sotheby's, part II, 6 Dec. 1897, lot 1687 to Pickering & Chatto for £1.6.0; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding) and bibliographical notes: No. 296, 19/1/98 and price code: r/r/- (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books