Accession number:
PML 31168
Uniform title:
Ordonnances.
Published:
[Paris] : [Antoine Vérard], Janvier, Lan de grace .Mil Cincq cens [January 1500/1501]
Description:
i-lxxxxii leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1935.
Notes:
Title and date from half-title page, leaf a1r.
GW assigns to [Nicole de La Barre for Antoine Vérard]. Assigned to Antoine Vérard in Macfarlane. For notes on types and their link with Antoine Vérard, see BMC.
Printed in types 1:152G, 2:132G and 3:112B (BMC).
Signatures: a⁸ b-p⁶: 92 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcut illustrations and initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26 x 19.5 cm.
Binding:
Modern full gilt-tooled brown goatskin over paper boards (26.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by L. Petitot. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Les ordonnances de la prévôté des marchands et de l'echevinage de la ville de Paris
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. A few 17th/18th-century French inscriptions (unconnected? words) on half-title (leaf a1r).
Provenance:
Trignac, (authentication?) signature (leaf p6v); unidentified inscription: "Je suis a Chausson," 17th century(?) (leaf a1r); unidentified sale, Giraud-Badin (Paris), 19-20 June 1931, Livres illustrés du XVe au XVIIIe siècle provenant de la bibliothèque de M. J. H***, bought by Arthur Rau, who sold to Dr. Rosenbach; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1935.
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