Cy fine le liure intitule le triumphe des neuf preux.

Accession number:

PML 623

Uniform title:

Triumphe.

Published:

Imprime en la ville dabbeuille : par Pierre Gerard, le penultime iour de may lan mil.quatre ce[n]s quatrevingtz [et] sept [30 May 1487].

Description:

[288] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title and imprint from colophon, leaf ll6r: Cy fine le liure intitule le triumphe des neuf preux/ ouquel sont contenus tous les fais et proesses quilz ontacheuez durant leurs vies/ auec lystoire de bertran de guesclin. Et a este imprime en la ville dabbeuille par Pierre gerard et finy le penultime iour de may lan mil.quatre ce[n]s quatrevingtz [et] sept.
Printed in Gérard's type 1:109G.
Signatures: AA⁸ BB⁴; a-h⁸ i⁶ k-l⁸ m-n⁶ o-r [curled-r]⁸ [long-s]⁶ s-y⁸ z¹⁰; aa-gg⁸ hh⁶ ii⁸ kk-ll⁶: 288 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26 x 19.1 cm.
PML copy missing 4 leaves, replaced in print facsimiles: leaf AA1-3 and ll5.

Binding:

18th-century French full brown (faded blue) morocco over paper boards (27 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Padeloup, bound shortly before Préfond sale; Seillière armorial added in 19th century. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Triumphe des neuf preux

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, ruling lines. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Jehan Josse, unidentified early French owner, inscription (leaf o5r); Paul Girardot de Préfond (d. about 1800), his sale, Paris, 25 April 1757, lot 945 for 90 francs; Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), his sale, Paris, 10 April 1769 for 48 francs; unidentified provenance inscription: "s.m. no. 2422" with 2422 crossed out (front endleaf 2 recto); Pierre Revoil (1776-1842) of Lyon, his sale, Catalogue de livres anciens...de M. le Chevalier Revoil, Paris, 19 March 1834 for 595 francs; Victor Masséna Essling, armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, May 1847, lot 237 (citing leaves 2 and 3 in manuscript and bound in blue morocco) for 350 francs; Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Bibliothèque de Mello, armorial binding (armorial added to existing binding) and provenance note (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Sotheby's, 28 Feb. 1887, lot 775 (citing first 3 leaves in facsimile, bound in blue morocco) for £28.10 to: Bernard Quaritch, General Catalogue, 1887, vol. VI, no. 37651 for £36; William Horatio Crawford, Lakelands, Cork (1815?-1888), bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, 12 March 1891, lot 2215 for £16.10 to Lawrence; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code (erased): wl/wl/- (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

Printed Books