Lordinaire des crestiens.

Accession number: 
PML 496
Published: 
A Paris : [Pierre Le Rouge] pour Anthoine Verad, le huytiesme iour. de juillet. Mil. quatre cens quatre vingz et dix [8 July 1490]
Description: 
[212] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, B3v: Ce present ordinaire des crestiens fut acheve le huytiesme iour. de juillet. Mil. quatre cens quatre vingz et dix pour anthoine verad libraire demourant a paris sur le pont nostre dame a lymage saint jehan levangeliste ou au palaiz au premier pillier devant la chapelle ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Vérard's device, leaf B4r.
Printed in Pierre Le Rouge's type 4:64G (smaller type, marginalia) and 5:84G (text and some marginalia); unidentified type 120 (title, leaf a1r) similar to Le Rouge 2:115G but slightly larger with different L.
Signatures: a-z [et] [con] A⁸ B⁴: 212 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut, leaf A5v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.8 x 13 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century French gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (21 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Koehler. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

L'ordinaire des Chrétiens

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication predominantly unrealized, only one red initial (leaf a6r), initials in preliminary table are later. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Illegible contemporary inscription below woodcut (leaf a5v).

Provenance: 
James Ehrhart Copinger (d. 1863); Félix Solar (1815-1871); his sale, Paris, part II, 26 Feb. 1861, lot 3447; anonymous sale: "Library of a Gentleman," Sotheby's, 27 Nov. 1896, lot 333 to Sotheran for £36; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 241, 7/12/96 and price code: sl/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books