La destruction de Troye.

Accession number:

PML 75068

Author:

Millet, Jacques, 15th century.

Published:

Imprimee a Lyon : par maistre Mathieu Husz, lan mil .CCCC quatre vingz et cincq. Le .v. iour de iauier [5 January 1485/1486]

Description:

[208] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1975.

Notes:

Title and imprint from colophon, leaf C7v: Cy finist la destruction de troye la gra[n]t mise par p[er]sonnaiges Imprimee a Lyon par maistre Mathieu husz Et a este finee lan mil .CCCC quatre vingz et cincq. Le .v. iour de iauier.
Printed in Huss's type 11*:100G.
Signatures: a-z A-C⁸: 208 leaves, leaf a1 blank (presumably).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts, with repetitions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank); leaves a8, p1-8, q7-8, and C8 replaced from copy now at Houghton Library (Harvard University, Typ Inc 8561.10), in the early/mid-20th century.

Binding:

18th-century French gilt-tooled citron morocco over paper boards (27.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Leaves added from Houghton copy with rubricated paragraph marks and yellow highlighting of first words washed away (visible under UV). Annotations: A few marginal nota bene marks in text. Pen trials, leaf b1r.

Provenance:

Unidentified armorial: lion, bend charged 3 shells, crowned (binding stamp); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 381 (missing leaves a1.8, p1-8; q7-8, and C8); Arthur Rau (Paris, bookseller), added in the missing leaves (see notes in ChL file); Edmée Maus (1905-1971), no. 1048, monogram booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from André Jammes, 1975 (with missing leaves replaced).

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books