Accession number:
PML 527
Published:
Imprime nouvellement a Paris : [Le Petit Laurens for Antoine Vérard or Jean Petit], [approximately 1497]
Description:
[142] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Begun by Guillaume de Lorris, and finished by Jean de Meung.
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Printing place from colophon, leaf z5v.
Printed in Le Petit Laurens's types 1:99G and 2:180G.
BMC dates as after 1493.
Three variants: 1) without publisher's mark, 2) with Antoine Vérard's mark, 3) with Jean Petit's mark.
Signatures: a⁸ b-g⁶ h⁸ i-z⁶: 142 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
88 woodcuts, with repititions.
PML copy is variant 1, without publisher's device.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
Binding:
19th-century English gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (26 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by De Coverly. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary inscriptions/annotations, bleached (visible but not legible under UV, leaves a1r and z6v).
Provenance:
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. [erased], 8/5/96 and price code: [erased] +com (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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