Accession number:
PML 609
Uniform title:
Valentin et Orson (French romance).
Published:
Imprime a Lyon : par Jaques Maillet, le penultime iour du mois de may ... Lan mil quatre cens quatre vingtz et neuf [30 May 1489]
Description:
[136] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r8r: Cy finist lystoire des deux vaillans chevaliers Valentin et Orson filz de lempereur de grece Imprime alyon le penultime iour du mois de may par Jaques maillet Lan mil quatre cens quatre vingtz et neuf.
Printed in Maillet's type 1:114G.
Signatures: a-r⁸: 136 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
40 woodcuts, with repetitions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 19 cm.
Binding:
Modern gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (28 20 cm), sewn on 6 supports, not signed but probably by Charlotte Ullman. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, front pastedown preserved from previous binding; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Title in ISTC: L'histoire des deux nobles et vaillans chevaliers Valentin et Orson
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary French inscription: une Lo boy(?) (leaf r8v).
Provenance:
Alexander William Lindsay (1812-1880), 25th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, inherited by his son: James Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), 26th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres; Bibliotheca Lindesiana sale, Sotheby's, part I, 13 June 1887, lot 2004 (this is not the Yemeniz copy as cited in description), to Quartich for £58; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto, preserved from previous binding) and bibliographical notes: No. 195, 8/5/96 and price code: dm/-/- +com (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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