Faiz du tresvailla[n]t et reno[m]me chevalier Trista[n].

Accession number:

PML 647

Uniform title:

Tristan.

Published:

Rouen : en lostel Jeha[n] le bourgoys [for Antoine Vérard], le dernier iour de septembre. Lan de grace Mil.cccc.iiii.xx. et .ix. [30 September 1489].

Description:

[188], [148] leaves ; 31cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Kerr collection, 1903.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf a1r): ...en volume ou histore autentique les vertueux nobles et glorieux faiz du tresvailla[n]t et reno[m]me chevalier Trista[n] filz du puissa[n]t roy meliadus de leonoys.
Imprint from colophon (leaf tt2v): ...livre a este i[m]prime a roue[n] en lostel Jeha[n] le bourgoys Fait [et] acheve le dernier iour de septembre. Lan de grace Mil.cccc.iiii.xx. et .ix.
Printed in Bourgeois's type 1:190G.
Collation: I) a-z⁸ [et]²; A²: 188 leaves; II) aa-ss⁸ tt⁴: 148 leaves, leaves aa1 and tt4 blank. GW has variant collation for Part I with quire A first.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Polain describes a variant with a shorter colophon and Vérard's name omitted.
PML copy with variant colophon lacking Vérard's name.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.4 x 19.1 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: tt3 and tt4 (blank), with tt3 replaced in facsimile.

Binding:

Late-18th/early-19th century gilt- and blind-stamped green morocco over paper boards. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with additional paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Le roman du noble et vaillant Chevalier Tristan

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: No notations in text. Manuscript title, 17th/18th century, partially abraded (third fly leaf recto).

Provenance:

Unidentified provenance inscription: "s.m. no. 2419" and "S.B. no. 271" (front endleaf 2 recto); John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelf mark: E+ (third front fly leaf recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 9 June 1826, lot 1651, to Thorpe for Heber; Richard Heber (1773-1833), purchase inscription from Inglis sale: 18.0.0 + Th. 2.14.0 = 20.14.0 and stamp (second fly leaf recto); Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Part I, Sotheby's, 10 April 1834, lot 7159; Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Bibliothèque de Mello booklabel (front pastedown), not in his 1887 or 1890 sales; John E. Kerr; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Kerr collection, 1903.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Morocco binding (Bindings)

Marks (Provenance)

Department:

Printed Books