Liber ad Fredericum imperatorem de sponsalibus Paulini et Polle.

Accession number: 
PML 127962.2
Author: 
Richardus, de Venusia.
Published: 
[Poitiers] : [Jean Bouyer and Guillaume Bouchet], [approximately 1500]
Description: 
[32] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 1997.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bouyer's type 11:76G, leaded. In the same type and layout as Parthenice secunda, 23 Sept. 1500, with which it was bound in the only copy known.
Signatures: A-D⁸: 32 leaves. Leaf A2 unsigned, A3 signed A2.
1 column, 22 lines. Woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.5 x 13.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (presumably blank or half-title page).

Binding: 
Modern laced limp parchment (19.5 x 14.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Deborah Evetts. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. Previous (19th/20th-century, Spanish?) stiff vellum binding preserved in box.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required, but printed initial highlighted in red (leaf A2r). Annotations: 16th/17th-century marginal notations sporadically throughout, in 2-3 southern French/Spanish hands (perhaps 1 hand found in all 4 parts of Sammelband). Inscribed name Francisco ("Francis Co") (leaf D8v).

Provenance: 
Nicholaus Legost, inscription, 16th century (leaf C6v of Bucolica); Dorothy Sloan (Austin, TX), auction 4 (1997), lot 10; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Sloan (via E.K. Schreiber) on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, April 1997.
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