La destruction de Troyes.

Accession number: 
PML 27165
Uniform title: 
Historia destructionis Troiae. French.
Published: 
[Lyon] : [Nicolaus Philippi and Marcus Reinhart], [approximately 1477]
Description: 
[96] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1930.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf a4r: Cy apres sensuivent les rubriches de ce present livre Intitule la destruction de troyes.
Explicit, leaf [l]9r: Explicit la destruction de troye en prose.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Philippi and Reinhart's types 2:120G and 3:93G.
PML Checklist dated to [1480].
Signatures: a¹² [b¹⁰ c-k⁸ l¹⁰]: 96 leaves, leaf [l]10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Sometimes ascribed to Guido de Columna.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.3 x 20.2 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [l]1, [l]4, and [l]7, supplied in facsimile from the Bodleian copy.

Binding: 
Modern (probably early 20th century) full brown goatskin over boards (29.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Henry T. Wood of London. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Feb. 1930.
Classification: 
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