Le songe du vergier lequel parle de la disputacion du clerc et du chevalier.

Accession number:

PML 540

Uniform title:

Vergier.

Published:

Imprime a Paris : par Le Petit Laurens pour venerable homme Jehan Petit [and for Jean Alexandre, Jean Alisot and Charles Debougne at Angers], [approximately April 1499]

Description:

[144] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r, with Jean Petit's device.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [et]3v: Alonneur [et] a la loue[n]ge de nostre seigneur iesucrist et de sa tres digne mere et de toute la courte celestielle de paradis. a este fait cestuy livre appelle le songe du vergier q[ui] parle de la disputation du clerc [et] du chevalier Et imprime a paris par Le petit laurens pour venerable homme Jehan petit libraire demourant a paris en la rue saint Jacques a lenseigne du lyon dargent.
A variant with the device of Jean Alexandre and Charles Debougne on the half-title page and the colophon ending, "...pour venerable ho[m]me Jehan alisot demourant a Angiers."
Printed in Laurens's types 2:180G, 4:110G, and 5:82G.
Dated about April 1499 in CIBN after the state of the device.
Signatures: a⁸ b-z⁶ [et]⁴: 144 leaves
Paper format: Chancery folio.
French adaptation and translation of the "Somnium viridarii" attributed to Evrart de Trémaugon. Cf. M. Schnerb-Lièvre, "Le songe du vergier édité d'après le manuscrit Royal 19 C.IV de la British Library," (Paris, 1982), I:XLIII-LXXXVIII (CIBN).
4 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.4 x 18.8 cm.
PML copy is the variant printed for Petit.

Binding:

19th-century French gilt-tooled full blue goatskin over paper boards (26 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports, with Seillière armorial. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Le songe du vergier

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary inscription, bleached (leaf a1r, visible but not legible under UV). No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), armorial binding; his sale, Paris, 5 May 1890, lot 87; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 103, 3/7/95 (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books