Accession number:
Heineman 306
Published:
[Lyon] : [Guillaume Le Roy], [approximately 1487]
Description:
[150] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Notes:
Begun by Guillaume de Lorris, and finished by Jean de Meung.
Title from title page, leaf a1r: Le Rommant De La Rose.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Le Roy's type 5*:111G.
Signatures: a-s⁸ t⁶: 150 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Illustrated with 92 woodcuts, with 7 blocks repeated.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1, replaced in facsimile; leaf a2 remargined.
Binding:
19th-century French gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (28.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Chambolle-Duru and Marius Michel, doreur, with Bibliothèque de Mello gilt armorial. Gilt-tooled green goatskin doublures with marbled and plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and ruling. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Bibliothèque de Mello, armorial binding, his sale, Charles Porquet (Paris), 5 May 1890, lot 419; Félix Solar (1815-1871), his sale, Paris, 19 Nov. 1860, lot 1040; Hector de Backer (1843-1925), his sale, Paris, part I, 17 Feb. 1926, lot 124; Dannie N. Heineman (1872-1962), bookplate (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
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