Accession number:
PML 53275
Published:
Imprime a Paris : [Pierre Le Rouge] por Anthoine Verard, [1491]
Description:
[46] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 37 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows, 1963.
Notes:
In fact by Martinus Dumiensis, Archbishop of Braga (Bracara).
Title from half-title page, leaf AA1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf G6r: Imprime a paris por anthoine verard Libraire demoura[n]t sur le po[n]t n[ost]redame a lymaige sai[n]t Jehan leua[n]geliste ou au palays au p[re]mier pillier de la salle deuant la chapelle ou on chante la mese de messeigneures les presidens.
Printed in Le Rouge's types 2:115G, 3:236G, and 7:90G.
Signatures: AA⁶ BB⁴ CC-EE⁸ FF-GG⁶: 46 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcuts.
Translated by Jean Courtecuisse.
Frequently found with Orosius, Goff O-102.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36.6 x 26.7 cm.
Binding:
18th-century(?) green-stained parchment over paper boards (37 x 26.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Pierre Berés, booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as a gift of the Fellows, 1963.
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