Accession number:
PML 620
Published:
Chambéry : par Anthoine Neyret, mil quatre cens octante et six le .xx. iour de octobre [20 October 1486].
Description:
[104] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf n5v: Cy finist ce present liure intitule le liure de modus et de la royne racio. Imprime a chambery par anthoine neyret lan de grace mil quatre cens octante et six le .xx. iour de octobre.
Printed in Neyret's type 1:119/120G.
Signatures: [1]⁴; a-l⁸ m-n⁶: 104 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
57 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.8 x 18.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding:
Modern red morocco over paper boards (26.5 x 19 cm), sewn on 6 support by Deborah Evetts. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves (front pastedown preserved from previous binding); plain endbands; gilt edges. Previously bound in dark blue morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet for Pinchon, 1844.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
M. Sandras, his sale, Paris, 1771, lot 1289 (bound with Le livre de Phebus de Deduyt de Chasse (Paris: Trepperel, n.d.)) for fr. 9; Adrien-Cyprien Duquesnoy (1759-1808), his sale, Paris, 7 March 1803, lot 311 for fr. 30; George Spencer Churchill (1766-1840), Fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, his sale (White Knights Library), Evans, part II, 22 June 1819, lot 3386 for £25.0.0; George Hibbert (1757-1837), his sale, Evans, 16 March 1829, lot 5643 for £12 (still bound with Phebus); Jerome Pichon (1812-1895), purchased from Payne, 1834 (without Phebus), manuscript inscription citing previous provenance, including attempt to purchase the separated Phebus at Huzard sale in 1843, Jan. 1844 (preserved from previous binding, rear endleaf 2 verso; Phebus is now at Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Rés. S-155), sold to Techener, 1847; Guillaume Libri (1803-1869), his sale, 19 Feb. 1849; G. Gancia, of Brighton, 8 April 1850; Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), with shelf mark: 26.I (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, lot 2622; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto, preserved from previous binding) and bibliographical notes: No. 292, 10/12/97 and price code: lal/-/- +com (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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