Le psaultier avecques lexposition sur de Lira en francoys.

Accession number: 
PML 24782-83
Author: 
Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349.
Published: 
Imprime a Paris : par Pierre Le Rouge, [approximately 1492]
Description: 
[6], i-CCxliiii; [6], i-CCxxvi leaves : woodcuts ; 29.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1927.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf AA1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf bbb6r: Cy fynist la tra[n]slatio[n] en fra[n]coys du postille sur le livre des pseaulmes co[m]pose p[ar] ce venerable [et] tresexcelle[n]t docteur en theologie de lordre des mineursmaistre nichole de lire imprime a Paris p[ar] pierre le rouge libraire [et] imprimeur du roy nostresyre. [Le Rouge's device, leaf bbb6v].
Date from ISTC. PML Checklist dates [about 1490]. Polain dates [about 1489].
Printed in Le Rouge's types 2:115G, 3:236G, and 7:90G.
Vol. I explicit, leaf F4r: Cy finist le premier volume du psaultier. i[m]prime par Pierre le Rouge libraire du Roy nostresire. [Le Rouge's device]
Signatures: vol. I: AA⁶; a-z [et] [con] A-E⁸ F⁴: 250 leaves; vol. II: ℓ⁶; aa-ii⁸ kk⁶ ll-qq⁸ rr⁶ [curled-r][curled-r]⁸ [long-s][long-s]⁶ ss⁸ tt⁶ vv⁸ uu⁶ xx-yy⁸ zz⁶ [et][et] [con][con] aaa⁸ bbb⁶: 232 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated by Pierre Desrey.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19.5 cm.

Binding: 
Contemporary French blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards (29 x 20 cm), sewn on 3 supports; rebacked. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. Contemporary manuscript title label on rear boards; evidence of chain hasp on front boards. 2 clasps with renewed leather straps.
Variant Title: 

Psaultier avecques l'exposition sur de Lira en francoys

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Emil Hirsch, July 1927.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books