Accession number:
PML 65072
Published:
Imprimes nouvellement a Paris : par Jehan Treperel, [approximately 1497]
Description:
[12] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Loeb and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schäfer, 1974.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r, with Tréperel's device.
Imprint from colophon, leaf B6r: Cy finent les menus propos Imprimes nouvellement a paris par Jehan treperel demourrant [sic] sur le pont nostre dame a lymaige sai[n]ct Laure[n]s.
CIBN dates 'circa 1487', presumably a misprint for 1497 (cf. M-300, '[post 1497]').
Signatures: A-B⁶: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.1 x 13.7 cm.
Binding:
19th-century French gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Bauzonnet-Trautz. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Joseph Crozet (d. 1841) (ex-info Lurde catalogue); Alexandre, comte de Lurde (1800-1872), collection inherited by his nephew: Alphonse de Ruble, baron (1831-1898) and Jeanne Bajot de Conantre (1839-1917), marriage armorial booklabel (front pastedown); Ruble sale, Paris, 3 June 1899, lot 115; Edmée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front pastedown), no. 230 and bibliographic notes, Aug. 1967 (rear endleaf 3 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E. Rossignol as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Loeb and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schäfer, Aug. 1974.
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