Accession number:
PML 127962.4
Published:
La Réole : [?Joannes Maurus (Jean Le More)], [approximately 1517]
Description:
[22] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 1997.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf A2r.
City from explicit, leaf C6v: Bucolica virgilii impressa reole feliciter expliciunt.
Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁶: 22 leaves. Signatures A and C signed in the leaf, not by the sheet.
Type: 133G (leaded; = 88 G solid?: 5 li. of verse commendatio preceding the colophon meas. 22 mm); 21 lines.
Watermark: unicorn, not located in Briquet or in Piccard, Fabeltiere.
Binding:
Modern laced limp parchment (19.5 x 14.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Deborah Evetts. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. Previous (19th/20th-century, Spanish?) stiff vellum binding preserved in box.
Variant Title:
Bucolica
Inscriptions/Markings:
Annotations: 16th/17th-century marginal notations throughout, in 2-3 southern French/Spanish hands (perhaps 1 hand found in all 4 parts of Sammelband).
Provenance:
Nicholaus Legost, inscription, 16th century (leaf C6v of Bucolica); Dorothy Sloan (Austin, TX), auction 4 (1997), lot 10; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Sloan (via E.K. Schreiber) on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, April 1997.
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