Livre damours.

Accession number:

PML 20948

Uniform title:

Pamphilus de amore. French

Published:

A Paris : pour Anthoine Verard, le .xxiii. iour de iuillet Mil CCCC quatre vintz quatorze [23 July 1494]

Description:

[78] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut) ; 27.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.

Notes:

Checklist author name form: Pamphilus Maurilianus.
Title from half-title page, leaf 1r: Livre damours: ouquel est relatee la grant amour: et facon par laquelle Pamphille peut: iouyr de galathee et le moyen: quen fist la maquerelle.
Imprint from colophon, leaf k7r: Ce present traicte damours intitulle pa[m]phille sut acheve de imprimer le .xxiii. iour de iuillet Mil CCCC quatre vintz quatorze pour anthoine verard marchant libraire demourant a paris sus le pont nostre dame alymage saint iehan levangeliste ou au palais au premier pilier devant la chapelle ou len chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Verard's device, leaf k7v.
Printed in Verard's types 3*:115G and 4**:90G.
Signatures: a-e⁸ f⁶ g-k⁸: 78 leaves, leaf k8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 woodcut, leaf a2r. Xylographic initial L on half-title page.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.6 x 18.2 cm.
PML copy printed on vellum. PML copy without woodcut, leaf a2r.

Binding:

18th-century French red morocco over paper boards (27.5 x 19 cm), sewn on 5 supports, with the arms of King Louis XV. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.

Variant Title:

Livre d'amours

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, yellow capital strokes (initials not required); painted scene (a man with a sword standing with two women in a bedchamber) and border (leaf a2r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

King Louis XV of France (1710-1774), armorial binding; Paris, Bibliotheque Royale and then Bibliotheque Imperiale, shelf mark: Y.2539 (leaf a1r), label: Velins 1,079 (front pastedown), and stamps (leaves a1r, a2r, k7v, and k8v), sold as duplicate; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), his sale, Sotheby's, 18 July 1919, lot 90 to Quaritch (collation statement, rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 1920.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum printings (Printing)

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books