Lucan Suetoine te [sic] Saluste en francois.

Accession number: 
PML 498
Author: 
Lucan, 39-65.
Published: 
Imprime a Paris : par Pierre le Rouge ... pour Anthoine Verard, le xxiie iour de Decembre mil iiiiCC .iiiiXX [et] dix [22 December 1490].
Description: 
i-cci [4] : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 36.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf A4r: Cy finist Lucan suetoine et saluste en fra[n]coys. Imprime a paris le xxiie iour de Decembre mil iiiiCC .iiiiXX [et] dix par Pierre le Rouge Libraire du roy nostresire pour Anthoine verard marcha[n]t libraire demourant a Paris sur le pont nostredame a lymaige sainct Jehan leuangeliste ou au palays deuant la chapelle ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Printed in Le Rouge's types 2:115G and 3:236G.
Signatures: a-z [et]⁸ [con]⁸(4+1: qui eschappast); A⁴: 205 leaves. The additional leaf in quire [con] is presumably that signed [con]5; watermark evidence is inconclusive.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
Woodcuts.
A life of Julius Caesar, partly based on the Pharsalia.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35 x 25.2 cm.

Binding: 
20th-century blind- and gilt-tooled full maroon goatskin over paper boards (36.5 x 27 cm), sewn on 5 supports by C.M. Ullman, 1965. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Lucan Suetoine et Saluste en francois

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, red line fillers. Woodcuts hand colored in pale washes. Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text. "Mondiue" written several times (leaf m4r) and "1693" (leaf o8r) in same hand.

Provenance: 
Unidentified English (Sotheby's?) sale catalogue description, lot 1372 (front endleaf, preserved from previous binding in dept. folder); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), purchase notes: No. 48a, 4/1/1900 and price code: wee/o/- (front endleaf, preserved from previous binding in dept. folder), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books