Le premier [-tiers] volume de lancelot du lac nouvellement imprime a Paris.

Accession number:

PML 26582-84

Uniform title:

Lancelot du Lac.

Published:

Imprime a Paris : pour Anthoine Verard, [after 1503]

Description:

[7], ii-ccxxxiii; [6], iii-Clxxxvi; [6], [i]-ccxxiii leaves (with mistakes) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1929.

Notes:

Partly xylographic title from half-title page, part I, leaf [a]1r.
First colophon, part I, leaf I4v: Cy finist le premier volume de la table ronde lancelot du lac. Imprime a paris Lan mil quatre cens quatre vingtz et quatorze. Le premier iour de Juillet pour Anthone verard Libraire demourant a paris.
Second colophon, part III, leaf GGG5v: Cy fine le derrenier volume de la table ronde faisant me[n]tion des fais et proesses de mo[n]seign[eu]r la[n]celot du lac [et] dautres plusieur[s] nobles et vaillans ho[mm]es ses compaigno[n]s. Imprime po[ur] anthoine verard marcha[n]t libraire demoura[n]t a paris devant la rue neufue n[ost]re dame a lymage saint iehan leva[n]geliste/ ou au palais ou p[re]mier pillier ou len chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens. [Vérard's device]
Colophon dates in parts I and III copied from Vérard's 1st edition (GW 12623). This edition dated from Vérard's address (in use after 1503).
Printed in Vérard's 12:104G.
Signatures: part I: [a]⁶; b-z A-G⁸ H⁶ I⁴: 248 leaves; part II: aa⁴; bb-zz⁸ [et][et]⁶ [con][con]⁴: 190 leaves, leaf bb1 blank; part III: A⁶; aaa-zzz AAA-DDD⁸ EEE-GGG⁶: 240 leaves, leaf GGG6 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
Woodcuts and printed initials.
Running title misprinted "Le seconde partie," leaves I3-4.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.6 x 23 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: GGG6 (blank).

Binding:

Bound in 3 volumes: Modern full goatskin over paper boards (33.5 x 24 cm), sewn on 6 supports by J. Niederhofer of Frankfurt. Plain vellum pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Edmund Harvye and Edmund Clerk, signatures and 4-line verse inscription: "Whoso to love oon hartely / [and] not to change hath bent hym ...," 16th/17th century (leaf [a]1r); Joseph Baer & Co., cat. 750 (April 1929), no. 438; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Baer, April 1929.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books