Accession number:
PML 129531
Published:
Impressu[m] P[ar]isi[us] : p[er] udalricum gering. Et Berchtoldu[m]. Renbolt socios, Anno domini [etc]. XCIIII. Augusti XVIII [18 August 1494].
Description:
137, [5] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2004.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf s1r: Impressu[m] p[ar]isi[us]. In vico sorbone ad Intersignu[m] solis aurei. p[er] udalricum gering. Et Berchtoldu[m]. Renbolt socios. Anno domini [etc]. XCIIII. Augusti XVIII.
Printed in Gering and Remboldt's type 4:80R, 5:100R, and 6:195G.
Signatures: a-s⁸: 142 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 13.5 cm.
Binding:
19th-century English full green goatskin over paper boards (21 x 14 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by C & C McLeish. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and red paragraph marks. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations on 3 leaves.
Provenance:
Pierre Moreau, inscription: "Est Petri Moreau," 16th century (leaf a1r); Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), Broxbourne Library, bookplates and stamp (front and rear pastedowns); Broxbourne sale, part II, Sotheby's, 8 May 1978, lot 428; Pierre Berès, booklabel (front pastedown); George Abrams (1919-2001), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's London, 16 Nov. 1989, lot 78; Reiss & Sohn, 20-24 April 2004, lot 1010; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bruce McKittrick on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, July 2004.
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