Accession number:
PML 196158.3
Published:
[Lantenac] : [Jean Crès], [after 16 June 1494]
Description:
[12] leaves ; 14 cm. (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler and L.C. Harper C-1 Funds, 2015.
Notes:
Title from half-title page (leaf [A]1r): Sensuivent les ordo[n]nances et statuz du roy faliz au pais de bretaigne ou moys de may Lan mil.cccc. quatre vigntzquatorze.
Leaf B4v: Et publie davant mon segneur le seneschal de Nantes au Bouffay dud[it] lieu le xvi. iour de iuign Lan mil cccc iii.xx.xiiii [i.e. 16 June 1494].
Printed in Crès's type 2:65G.
Collation: [A]⁸ B⁴: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo
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.
Variant Title:
Ordonnances et statuts faits au pays de Bretagne en mai 1494
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, guide letters. Annotations: Marginal notation regarding Charles reign dates (leaf A2r).
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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