Les merveilles de Romme.

Accession number: 
PML 41007
Uniform title: 
Mirabilia Romae. French
Published: 
Paris : [Guy Marchant for] Geoffroy de marnef, en lan de nostre seigneur Mil iiiic. iiiixx. [et] xix. le ix iour de novembre [9 November 1499]
Description: 
[72] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 13 cm (8vo)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1949.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r: Les merveilles de romme. pelerinates eglises corps saincts et lieux dignes. que visitent les pelerins et pelerines qui yvo[n]t avecques les indulge[n]ces et remissio[ne]s quilz acquierent.
City and publisher from colophon, leaf i8v: [Marnef's device] Qui aura voulente et devocion de avoir ce present livret contentant le voyage de romme avecques les indulgences et sainctes reliques de ladicte cite de ro[m]me: e[n]semble le chemin de ville en ville a commencer de la cite de Paris iusques audict Ro[m]me: Il en trouvera en la maison de Geoffroy de marnef a lenseigne du Pellican en la rue de sainct Jacques: devant sainct yves.
Date from explicit, leaf i6r: Sensuit le chemin plus ayse sacile et utile a tenir. tant pour logis que pour peregriner en la faincte cite de romme a commencer de la noble cite de paris ville capital du royaulme de france. En laquelle a este translate et imprime cedit present livret. en lan de nostre seigneur Mil iiiic. iiiixx. [et] xix. le ix iour de novembre.
Printed in Marchant's types 5:200G and 9:84B (BMC).
Signatures: a-i⁸: 72 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo. Incorrectly recorded as 12mo in Goff.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 12.4 x 8.5 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century (French?) full calf over paper boards (13 x 9 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Boersch. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Historia et descriptio urbis Romae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

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

Provenance: 
Unidentified monogram stamp, in red: "A G," 19th century (front endleaf 4 recto); unidentified French bibliographic notes, 19th century (front endleaf 2 recto); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 674 (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Arthur Rau, Aug. 1949.
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