Libro intitulado nobiliario perfetamente copylado [y] ordenado por el onrrado cauallero Ferantd Mexia veynte quatro de Iahen [et]c.

Accession number:

PML 666

Author:

Mexía, Fernando, active 15th century.

Published:

Seuilla : Peter Brun and Juan Gentil, xxx de junio, año dela incarnaçion milly.cccc.xcij [30 June 1492].

Description:

[96] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Entered under Mejia, Ferando (Fernando) in BMC & CIBN.
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m8r: Acabose la presente obra sabado xxx. de junio. año dela incarnaçion: de milly.cccc.xcij. años. Enla muy noble y lleal cibdad d[e] seuilla inpressa por llos onrrados varones maestros. Pedro brun. Iua[n] gentil. fiel [y] verdaderamente corregida [et]c.
Printed in Brun and Gentil's types 2:90G and 3:117(106)G.
Signatures: a⁶ b-h⁸ i¹⁰ k-m⁸: 96 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Printed initials. Heraldic woodcuts in quire m.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.2 x 20.8 cm.

Binding:

Modern full red goatskin over paper boards (30 x 21 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Hardy-Mennil (after Crawford sale, then bound in vellum). Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Nobiliario perfetamente copilado

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout, washed (visible under UV).

Provenance:

Unidentified early provenance inscription, abraded, visible but not legible under UV (leaf a2r); Alexander William Lindsay (1812-1880), 25th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, inherited by his son: James Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), 26th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, Bibliotheca Lindesiana sale, Sotheby's, part I, 13 June 1887, lot 1410 (bound in vellum); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 216, 18/5/96 and price code: [erased] (front endleaf 1 verso); 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