La fontaine de toutes scie[n]ces du philosophe Sydrach.

Accession number: 
PML 494
Author: 
Sydrach, Philosophe.
Published: 
Imprime a Paris : [Pierre Levet] pour Anthoine Verard [and Nicole Gilles], le xx. iour de fevrier Mil CCCC .huita[n]te et six [20 February 1486/1487].
Description: 
[186] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf y6r: Cy finist le livre qui sydrach philozophe a fait/ le quel livre est la fontaine de toutes sciences imprime a paris le xx. iour de fevrier Mil CCCC .huita[n]te et six pour anthoine verard libraire demoura[n]t a paris sur le po[n]t nostre dame a lymage saint jehan levangeliste ou au palaiz au premier pillier devant la chappelle ou on cha[n]te la messe de messeigneurs les presidens. Amen. [Verard's mark]
Printed in Levet's types 2:114G and 3:100G.
Signatures: A-B⁶ C¹⁰; a-e⁸ f-g⁶ h-k⁸ l⁶ m-q⁸ r⁶ s-t⁸ u⁶ x⁸ y⁶: 186 leaves, leaf C10 blank. Leaf A1 unsigned, A2 signed A1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Nicole Gilles.
Woodcut of enthroned king with coutiers, leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.6 x 18.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: C10 (blank).

Binding: 
19th-century blind-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (26.5 x 19 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet; repaired by Sanford and Clarke. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

La fontaine de toutes sciences

Inscriptions/Markings: 

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

Provenance: 
Sotheby's sale (James Salkeld Burra (1838-1911)?), 12 May 1897, lot 980 for £81, to: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 260, 17/5/97 and price code: dw/-/- +com d/o/- (front endleaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books