Le myrouer de la vie humaine.

Accession number:

PML 598

Author:

Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo, 1404-1470.

Published:

[Lyon] : Imprime par Nicolas philippi et Marc reinhardi, lan mil quatrecens [et] octante [et] deux le .xx. iour daust [20 August 1482].

Description:

[148] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit, leaf a2r: Alonneur de dieu de la glorieuse vierge marie et de toute la court celestialle de paradis [et] a la utilite d[e] toute la union des catholiq[ue]s cristiens Icy comma[n]ce la lyvre intitule le myrouer de la vie humaine et droyteme[n]t ainsi est nomme.
Imprint from colophon, leaf t5v: Icy est fin ye une briefue table selo[n] lordre de a b c utile [et] prouffitable pour trouver facillement les matieres co[n]tenues en ce present livre. Imprime par Nicolas philippi et Marc reinhardi de strasbourc lan mil quatrecens [et] octante [et] deux le .xx. iour daust.
Printed in Philippi and Reinhart's type 2:120G.
Signatures: a-l⁸ m⁶ n-s⁸ t⁶: 148 leaves, leaves a1 and t6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts.
Translated by Pierre Farget.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and t6 (blanks).

Binding:

Modern full brown goatskin over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Unidentified shelf mark(?): n° xxiv (leaf a2r); William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 2710 to Quaritch for £17.5.0; Bernard Quaritch, Rough list 115 (June 1891), no. 589 for £10.10.0; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding) and inscription dated 30 Jan. 1895 (front endleaf 2 recto, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books