Accession number:
PML 79747.2
Published:
[Angers] : [Johannes de La Tour (de Turre)], [approximately1493-1495].
Description:
[1], i-Liiii, [1] ; 13.5 cm. (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1988.
Notes:
Title from incipit, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC. De la Tour's printer's mark, leaf a1v.
GW assigns to Johannes de Turre and Johannes Morelli, [about 1493].
Printed in La Tour's types 2:100G and 3:65G.
Signatures: a-g⁸: 56 leaves, leaf g8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13 x 9 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and g8 (blank).
Binding:
Modern full brown calf over paper boards (13.5 x 9.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Variant Title:
Title from ISTC: Styles et usages de procéder en la cour laie d'Anjou et du Maine
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Minimal 15th/16th-century notations, leaves d1r (dated 1539) and g4v.
Provenance:
Unidentified inscription, in rubricator's red: "J [??] Le x amore" (leaf a1r of Coutumes) and "Scelera scriptori de[us] anser cu[m] ... [???]" (leaf o9v of Coutumes); C. Chrestien, signature, 15th/16th century (leaf a1r of Coutumes); unidentified bookseller's notes, signed FW (rear pastedown); Philip Robinson (of William H. Robinson, booksellers); his sale, Sotheby's London, part I, 23 June 1988, lot 10; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Sotheby's on the Harper Fund, June 1988.
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