La vie et lege[n]de demon seigneur saint Roch, vray preservateur de pestilence.

Accession number:

PML 75547

Published:

Imprimee a Paris : par Jehan Herouf, [approximately 1494]

Description:

[18] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 18.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Paul Needham, 1977.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r: La vie et lege[n]de demon seigneur saint Roch, vray preservateur de pestilence.
Imprint from colophon, leaf c4r: Cy finist la vie saint Roch Imprimee a Paris par Jehan herouf.
Herouf's known activity dates are 1501-28, so this may not be an incunable.
PML Checklist dates [about 1492-5]. GW dates [after 1500(?)].
Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c⁴: 18 leaves. Leaf c2 signed b2.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Jean Philipot.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.1 x 13 cm.
Watermark in PML copy is Briquet 2195, dated to 1489.

Binding:

Modern full brown goatskin over paper boards (18.5 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

La vie, legende, miracles et oraison de monseigneur saint Roch

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and flourishes. Annotations: 16th-century inscription: "L'an 1490" next to colophon and noting date reference on leaf c3r.

Provenance:

Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso); his sale, 9 May 1867, lot 406 for 162 francs; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 575, (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Emdée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front pastedown); Librairie Thomas-Scheler, cat. 9, no. 157; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Librairie Thomas-Scheler on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Paul Needham, 1977.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books