Accession number:
PML 509
Published:
[Geneva] : [Jean Croquet], [about 1481]
Description:
[180] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes:
92 woodcuts in text.
Begun by Guillaume de Lorris, and finished by Jean de Meun. Author portrait of Jean de Meun on leaf e4v.
Claudin, Histoire de l'imprimerie en France au XVe et au XVIe siècle, III: 416 assigned printing to [Lyon: Gaspard Ortuin and Pierre Bouttellier (Schenck)].
Collation: a-x⁸ y-z⁶: 180 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
In some copies leaf i4 is signed z4, see GW.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.3 x 20 cm
Printed in Croquet's type 1:101/102G.
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): "Cy commen[c]ce le roma[n]t de la rose, ou tout lart damours est enclose."
Binding:
19th-century full red goatskin with gilt-tooled turn-ins over paper boards (29 x 21cm) by Thibaron-Joly. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication (incipit initials) unrealized. Woodcuts are partially hand-colored in pale washes of blue, green, and brown.
Provenance:
[Frederick Locker-Lampson, Rowfant Library, ms note by Belle Green on first fly verso, but not in Rowfant Library catalogue of 1886 (Appendix to Catalogue of 1900?)]; Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariat, Munich, Incunabula xylographica et chalcographica, 1892, no. 206 and unidentified Rosenthal catalogue, lot 1012; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Dodd, Mean & Co., Feb. 1907.
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