Lexposition de loroison dominicale pater noster.

Accession number: 
PML 199005.2
Author: 
Montfiquet, Radulphus de
Published: 
[Paris] Imprime a la rue sainct Jaquez au pres de petit pont : par Pierre Levet, Lan Mil quatre cens quatre vingtz et cinq. Le vigille sainct Andry [29 November 1485].
Description: 
[56] leaves ; 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 g8r: Cy finist lexposicio[n] de la patenostre [sic] composee en latin et en francoys, par maistre Raolu de mo[n]tfiquet extraicte et recueillye de plusieurs de diuers docteurs, et expositeurs. Plaise au lecteur de ce liure luy donner une patenostre [sic]. Imprime a la rue sai[nc]t iaquez au pres de petit pont, par Pierre Leuet. Lan Mil quatre cens quatre vingtz et cinq. Le vigille sainct Andry.
Printed in Levet's types 2:114G and 3:100G.
Signatures: a-g⁸: 56 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.8 x 12.8 cm.

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'oraison dominicale

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks, yellow capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Leaf a1 paritally torn away, affecting part of title, replaced in facsimile, on the verso of which is faded 18th/19th-century French notations.

Provenance: 
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 388; 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
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Department: 
Printed Books