Le chapelet de virginité.

Accession number:

PML 79158

Published:

[Paris] : [Pierre Le Rouge], [approximately 1485-1486]

Description:

[20] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.

Notes:

In fact a revision of the Chapelet de virginité, with the title Le chapelet d'amours spirituelles. According to the Dictionnaire de spiritualité tom.12 (1984) col.887-888, the attribution to Pèlerin de Vermandois (in Goff) is erroneous (CIBN I p.504).
Incipit, leaf a3r: Du chapellet damours spirituelles doibt estre premierement myse la fleur deliz qui signifie virginite pour .iiii. choses qui sont ou liz.
Imprint from ISTC. Dated by Hillard.
Printed in Le Rouge's type 2:117B (later state).
Signatures: a-b¹⁰: 10 leaves, leaf b10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut L as used in BL IA.40030.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.

Binding:

19th-century French full green goatskin with gilt-tooled centerpiece over paper boards (20 x 17 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Le chapelet d'amours spirituelles

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Unidentified French sale catalogue description (Heilbrun?), no. 89 (front endleaf 1 verso); Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 96, purchased from Georges Heilbrun (Paris), 14 July 1967; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books