Les cent nouvelles nouvelles.

Accession number:

PML 493

Uniform title:

Nouvelles.

Published:

Imprimees a Paris : [Antoine Caillaut?] p[ar] A[n]thoine Verard [and Nicole Gilles], le .xxiiii. iour de decembre Mil CCCC.lxxx. et vi [24 December 1486].

Description:

[154] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf t10r: Cy finissent les cent nouvelles nouvelles composees et recitees par nouvelles gens de puis na gueres/ et imprimees a paris le .xxiiii. iour de decembre Mil CCCC.lxxx. et vi. p[ar] a[n]thoine verard libraire demourant a paris sur le pont nostre dame a lymage saint jehan leva[n]geliste ou au palaiz au premier pillier devant la chappelle ou on cha[n]te la messe de messeigneurs les presidens. [Verard's mark]
Attributed to Caillaut in CIBN from the state of the types. Printed in Caillaut's types 12:100G and 3:112G.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-d⁸ e⁶ f-s⁸ t¹⁰: 154 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcuts.
Attributed to Ludovicus XI (Goff).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.1 x 17.3 cm.
PML copy missing 12 leaves: leaf a1r (replaced in manuscript facsimile) and s8-t10 (replaced in manuscript).

Binding:

19th-century English gilt-tooled green hard-grained morocco over paper boards (25 x 18.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Printed cloth pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary Low Countries rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks with pen flourishing, and red capital strokes. Woodcuts not colored, but some broken borders filled in with red. Annotations: 1 contemporary marginal notation in French (leaf a4r).

Provenance:

John Ker (1740-1804), Duke of Roxburghe; his sale, Evans, 18 May 1812, lot 6212 (described as without publ. date, no missing leaves cited); George Spencer Churchill (1766-1840), Fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford; his sale (White Knights Library), Evans, 23 June 1819, lot 968 (without publ. date, no missing leaves cited) to Watson Taylor for £9.9.0; George Watson-Taylor (1771-1841); his sale, Evans, part I, 20 March 1823, lot 475 (cited as Roxburghe copy, no publ. date, no missing leaves) for £5.12.6; Edward Vernon Utterson (1775/76-1856), armorial booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front endleaf 1 verso); his sale, Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1217 (citing manuscript facsimile title and missing leaves); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 1115, 19/3/96 and price code: oo/-/- (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books