Cy conmence listoire du vaillant chevalier pierres filz du conte de provence et de la belle maguelonne fille du roi de naples.

Accession number: 
PML 62290
Published: 
[Lyon] : [Martin Huss], [approximately 1479-1481]
Description: 
[42] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Fellows, with the special assistance of Miss Alice Tully, 1972.
Notes: 

The text is attributed to Bernard de Treviez or to Philippe Camus (CIBN).
Title from incipit, leaf a1r: Au nom de nostre seigneur ih[es]ucrist cy conmence listoire du vaillant chevalier pierres filz du conte de provence et de la belle maguelonne fille du roi de naples ordonne en cestuy langage a lonneur de dieu de la vierge marie [et] de mo[n] seigneur fai[n]ct pierre de maguelonne du quel lesditz pierre et maguelonne ont este premiers fo[n]dateurs Et fut mis en cestui la[n]gage lan mil CCCC liii eu la maniere qui sensuit.
Imprint from ISTC.
GW dates as about 1480.
Printed in Huss's type 5:109G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e¹⁰: 42 leaves, leaf e10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 18.9 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: e10 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern full red goatskin, by Duru, 1845.
Variant Title: 

Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Initials and capitals colored in a pale wash. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Robert Lang, his sale, Evans, 17 Nov. 1828, lot 1953; Richard Heber (1773-1833), his sale, Sotheby's, part IX, 11 April 1836, lot 2503 to Crozet for £26.0.0; Victor Masséna Essling (1799-1863), duc de Rivoli, prince d'Antibes; his sales, [1836, 1839, and 1847,] sold for fr. 880; Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel, no. 2325 (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Paris, 9 May 1867, lot 2325 for fr. 2700; Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Paris, part I, 6 June 1878, lot 611 for fr. 2950; James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, armorial bookplate (front pastedown), Bibliotheca Lindesiana sale, Sotheby's, part I, 13 Jun 1887, lot 1634; Horace Landau (1824-1903), monogram booklabel, no. 4047 (front pastedown); Martin Bodmer (1899-1971); H.P. Kraus, cat. 131 (1971), no. 26; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Kraus as the gift of the Fellows, with the special assistance of Miss Alice Tully, Jan. 1972.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Century: 
19th century
Department: 
Printed Books