Le pelerinaige de lame.

Accession number:

PML 23339

Author:

Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century.

Published:

Imprime a Paris : pa Anthoine Verad, le. xxvii. iour davril .mil.cccc.iiii vings .xix. [27 April 1499]

Description:

[2], i-lxxxiiii leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1926.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf O6v: Cy finist le pelerinaige de lame. Imprime a paris le. xxvii. iour davril .mil.cccc.iiii vings .xix. Par anthoine verad [sic] libraire demourant sur le pont nostre dame a lymaige sainct iehan levangeliste/ ou au palais au premier pillier deva[n]t la chappelle ou len chante la messe de messeigneures les presidens.
Printed in Vérard's type 7:114G.
Signatures: [1²]; A-O⁶: 86 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Prose version of Jean Gallopes.
28 illustrations, with woodcuts repeated.
Likely the second part of three, with Le Pèlerinage de la vie humaine (part I, ISTC ig00637000/GW 11849) and Le pèlerinage d l'homme (part III, printed by Vérard in 1511, see Macfarlane 101).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.5 x 18.5 cm.

Binding:

18th-century English gilt-tooled black morocco over paper boards (28 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Pèlerinage de l'âme

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required (except leaf A1r, unrealized). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Samuel Bush, inscription: "ex dono D[omi]ni. Ph. Le Clerc" and notes on printing date, 18th century(?) (front endleaf 2 recto); unidentified shelf mark: III 32 (front endleaf 1 verso); unidentified German pencil notes on woodcuts; unidentified English bibliographical notes, tipped-in (front endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Feb. 1926.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books