Lexposition de laue Maria.

Accession number: 
PML 199005.1
Author: 
Montfiquet, Radulphus de
Published: 
Imprimee a Paris pres petit pont : par Pierre Levet et Jehan Alissot, le dernier iour de febvrier mil quatre cens quatre vingz et cinq [28 February 1485/86].
Description: 
[60] leaves : illustrations (2 woodcuts) ; 18.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2023.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h6v: Cy finist la declamacion faict et composee par frere Guillaume Alexis, religieux de Lire et prieur de Buzy, sur levangille Missus est, et a la lauenge de dieu et de nostre dame. Imprimee a Paris pres petit pont, par Pierre Leuet et Iehan Alissot le dernier iour de febvrier mil quatre cens quatre vingz et cinq.
Printed in Levet's type 3:100G.
Signatures: a-f⁸; g-h⁶: 56 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Annunciation woodcut (leaf a2r) and Visitation (leaf d8r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.8 x 12.8 cm.
PML copy missing Alexis, Déclamation sur l'évangile Missus est Gabriel (leaves g1-h6).

Binding: 
19th/early 20th-century (before Fairfax Murray sale) English full blue (faded to gray-green) morocco over paper boards (18.5 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by J. & J. Leighton. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

L'Exposition de l'Ave Maria

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks, yellow capital strokes and Annunciation woodcut highlighted in yellow. Annotations: Contemporary French notation but unclear relationship to text (leaf b8r).

Provenance: 
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 389; Silvain S. Brunschwig (1882-1970), monogram booklabel (front pastedown), sale: Geneva, 28 March 1955, lot 291; Librairie Lardanchet (Paris), 1963, no. 224; Librairie Métamorphoses (Paris), Livres rares et documents précieux (2018), no. 64 for €60,000 and Un choix de livres rares et de documents précieux (March 2022), no. 2; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from HS Rare Books on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, May 2023.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
Printed Books