Cy finist listoire de la destruction de troye.

Accession number: 
PML 530
Author: 
Millet, Jacques, 15th century.
Published: 
Imprimee a Paris : par Jehan Driart, [for Antoine Vérard], huytiesme iour de May ... Lan mil quatrecens quatre vingtz [et] dixhuyt [8 May 1498]
Description: 
[212] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from colophon, leaf E5v: Cy finist listoire de la destruction de troye la grant mise par parsonnaiges par maistre iacques milet lice[n]cie en loix Et imprimee a paris huytiesme iour de may par Jehan driart Imprimeur demourant ala rue saint Jacques a lenseigne de trois pucelles Lan mil quatrecens quatre vingtz [et] dixhuyt.
Vérard's device, leaf E6r.
Printed in Driart's types 1:106G and 2:80G.
Checklist has variant printer name form: Jean Driard.
Signatures: a-q⁸ r-z⁶/⁸ A-C⁸ D-E⁶: 212 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
32 woodcuts, with repetitions.
For variants see CIBN M-365.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.2 x 18 cm, trimmed, affecting some top lines of text.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: E6.

Binding: 
Modern full brown calf over paper boards (26 x 19 cm), sewn on 5 supports by the Doves Bindery. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

La destruction de Troye

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Paris, Bibliothèque Royale, "Bibliothecae Regiae" stamp, 17th century; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: dm/-/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books