Ogier le Da[n]noys.

Accession number:

PML 533

Published:

Paris : Antoine Vérard, [before 25 October 1499?]

Description:

[158] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

58 illustrations from 13 woodcuts.
Collation: a-c⁸ d-x, A-B⁶ C⁸ D⁶: 158 leaves.
Colophon (leaf D6v): Ala louenge de dieu [et] de toute la court celeste. Cy finist le rommant no[m]me ogier le dannoys parla[n]t des belles victoires [et] gra[n]s prouesses q[u'i]l eut ensemble plusieurs nobles princes francoys contreles sarrasins et infideles. Imprime a paris pour Anthoine verard libraire demourant a paris surle pont nostre dame a lenseigne sainct Jehan levangeliste ou au palais au premier pilier deva[n]t la chapelle ou lon chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.5 x 18.2 cm
PML copy with misprinted signatures: b4 signed B4, h1 signed h2 (corrected in manuscript), and D2 signed B2.
PML copy with title leaf (leaf a1) remounted with modern paper margins.
Printed in Vérard's types 2:99B, 11a:98B, and 11c:94B.
The book is printed in three of Vérard's types, a later reprinting apparently making good destroyed sheets (BMC). Copies are accordingly composite in character. The publisher's prologue to Louis XII is found only in the dedication copy in Torino N (see IGI plate XLI).
Title from title leaf (leaf a1r): Ogier le da[n]noys duc de lanne marche...

Binding:

19th century gilt-tooled full black goatskin with gilt-tooled red doublures, in a pastiche of an early style over paper boards (27 x 19 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Koehler. Decorative endbands; marbled paper and plain paper fly leaves; all edges gilt.

Variant Title:

Ogier le Danois

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Red and blue lombards and paragraph marks (where required by lack of printed correspondent). Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Victor Masséna Essling (1799-1863), duc de Rivoli, prince d'Antibes; his sale, [1836, 1839, and 1847,] sold for 1500 francs; Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor (1789-1879), baron Taylor, ownership stated in Solar catalogue; his sale, Sotheby, 1 June 1853, lot 2348; Félix Solar (1815-1871); his sale, Paris, 19 Nov. 1860, lot 1862; Alexander Lindsay (1812-1880) and James Lindsay (1847-1913), the 25th and 26th Earls of Crawford, inscription (front fly verso); Lindesiana sale, Sotheby's, 13 June 1887, lot 1548, to Quaritch for £30; Bernard Quaritch, collation note, 28 June 1887 (rear fly recto) and catalogues: Catalogue of Fifteen Hundred Books (1889), no. 596 for £105 and Catalogue of Mediaeval Literature (1890), no. 282; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front doublure); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Woodcuts

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Century:

19th century

Department:

Printed Books