Accession number:
PML 196158.2
Published:
Nantes : Etienne Larcher, [about 1493-1494]
Description:
[44] leaves : illus. (woodcut) ; 14 cm. (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler and L.C. Harper C-1 Funds, 2015.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf f3v): Imprime a nantes par estie[n]ne larchier. [woodcut device].
Collation: [a]b-e⁸ f⁴:44 leaves, leaf f4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo
Woodcut of St. Christopher (8 x 4.7 cm.) on leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.7 x 8.8 cm.
Binding:
15th-century (Breton?) blind-stamped leather over paper boards (14 x 10 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; hinges and edges repaired. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. 1 clasp, wanting.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, guide letters. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance:
Raoul (d. 1527) and Étienne Bec-de-Lièvre (d. 1535), annotations (third front fly leaf); unidentified ownership stamps, pasted over (leaf a1r of Rubrice); Rennes, Capuchins, ownership inscription, 1708 (leaf a2r of Rubrice); Louis Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie (1827-1901), inscription, 1884 (first fly leaf recto) and bookplate (front pastedown), and given by his widow, Marie de La Borderie to: Elie comte de Palys (1836-1908); Comte de Palys sale, Paris, 9 April 2014, lot 185; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bruce McKittrick, May 2015.
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