Le livre des sains anges / compile par frere francoys eximines de lordre des freres mineurs a la requeste de messire pierre dartes chevalier chambellain et maistre dostel du roy darragon.

Accession number: 
PML 21974
Author: 
Eiximenis, Francesc, approximately 1340-approximately 1409.
Published: 
Imprime a Genefue : [Adam Steinschaber], Lan de grace Mil.cccc.lxxviii. le .xxiiiie iour de mars [24 March 1478].
Description: 
[192] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Cest le prologue de cest present livre appelle le livre des sains anges compile par frere francoys eximines de lordre des freres mineurs a la requeste de messire pierre dartes chevalier chambellain et maistre dostel du roy darragon.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [24]/8v: [I]cy finist le livre des sains anges. Imprime a Genefue Lan de grace Mil.cccc.lxxviii. le .xxiiiie iour de mars.
Printed in Steinschaber's type 1:120G.
Checklist has printer listed as: Adam Steinshauer.
Collation: [1-24⁸]: 192 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 31 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.2 x 20.3 cm.

Binding: 
Contemporary southern French/Spanish blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (29 x 21 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; repaired. Plain paper pastedowns and modern fly leaves. 1 clasp, missing.
Variant Title: 

Le livre des saints anges

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks (C-type with extended underscore). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary inscription in pale ink, difficult to read -- leaf remounted upside down (leaf [1]/1r).

Provenance: 
Robin de Cros, drawing of author standing in a pulpit and holding a scroll: "Le livre des angies sain" and inscription below, 1 June 1508: "Ceste present livre est a moy Robin de Cros escuer lequel a este achachte par moy cle[??]lle de foude[?] en mo[??]alt [??] de la pingue. L'an mil cinq c. huite [???] le premier jour de juing. Et cousta trente sous tournoys. Signe par moy a la relation du dit Robin [signature] notaire royal" (front pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Feb. 1923.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books