Le fardelet hystorial.

Accession number:

PML 75070

Author:

Rolevinck, Werner, 1425-1502.

Published:

Imprime audit Lyon : [Mathias Huss], Lan mil CCCClxxxii [1483, before 30 August]

Description:

[96] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1975.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m2v: ... Ne aultre chose por le prese[n]t ie p[re]sumys de dire seno[n] q[ue] ce p[re]se[n]t livre i[n]titule peiti faitz ou fard[e]let des temps a este translate de latin en francoys par venerable et discrete p[er]sonne maistre Pierre farget docteur en saincte theologie de lordre des freres angustins [sic] et du couvent de lyon et imprime audit lyon Lan mil .CCCC.lxxxiii. Regnant ledit Loys paisiblement en france, Et lan de son regne .xxii.
Printed in Huss's type 1:106G.
According to the colophon, Louis XI was still alive when the book was printed (CIBN).
Signatures: a-m⁸: 96 leaves, leaves a1 and m8 blank(?). Leaf a2 signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Median folio.
Woodcuts.
Translated by Pierre Farget.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.6 x 22 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and m8 (blanks?).

Binding:

19th-century French gilt-tooled full blue goatskin over paper boards (33 x 23 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Petit fardelet des temps

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Pale wash on capital letters. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

James Erhart Coppinger (d. 1863), booklabel (front pastedown); P. Desq, booklabel (front pastedown), sale Lyon, 1866; Edmée Maus (1905-1971), no. 352, monogram booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased through trade with André Jammes, 1975.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books