Accession number:
PML 601
Published:
[Lyon] : [Johannes Siber], [approximately 1485]
Description:
[150] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Begun by Guillaume de Lorris, and finished by Jean de Meung.
Title from caption, leaf a2r: Ci commence le romant de la rose / Ou tout lart damours est enclose.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Siber's types 2:100G and 4:120G.
PML Checklist dates as [1484].
Signatures: a-s⁸ t⁶: 150 leaves, leaf a1 blank(?).
Paper format: Chancery folio
92 woodcut illustrations, with 7 blocks repeated.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank?).
Binding:
18th-century French full red morocco over paper boards (28.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports (Wodhull catalogue identifies binder as Derome). Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks; woodcuts hand colored. Annotations: A few early marginal notations sporadically throughout text (don't seem too related to text itself).
Provenance:
Unidentified inscription: Madame la marquise, 15th/16th century (leaf t6v); Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), inscriptions, 17 Jan. 1771 (front endleaf 1 recto) and 26 Oct. 1774 (rear endleaf 1 recto), purchased at Baker and Leigh's sale, Jan. 1771 for £3.3.0, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 2250 for £32.0.0; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 193, 8/5/96 and price code: ae/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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