Le songe du vergier qui parle de la disputacion du clerc [et] du cheualier.

Accession number:

PML 456

Uniform title:

Somnium viridarii. French.

Published:

[Lyon] : Imprime a Jacques Maillet, Mil.CCCC.quatre vintz et vnze, le vintiesme iour de Mars [20 March 1491/92].

Description:

[168] leaves : illustrations (2 woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Kerr collection, 1903.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf v7r: Cy finist le so[n]ge du vergier qui parle de la disputacio[n] du clerc [et] du cheualier. Imprime par Iacques maillet/ lan mil.CCCC.quatre vintz et vnze/ le vintiesme iour de Mars.
Printed in Maillet's type 3:95/96G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-m⁶ n⁸; o-s⁶ t-v⁸: 168 leaves, leaf v8 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
1 woodcut printed twice, leaves a1v and n8v.
French adaptation and translation of the 'Somnium viridarii' attributed to Evrart de Trémaugon. Cf M. Schnerb-Lièvre, 'Le songe du vergier édité d'après le manuscrit Royal 19 C.IV de la British Library', Paris, 1982, I p.XLIII-LXXXVIII (CIBN).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32 x 23.1 cm, trimmed.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1, with leaf n8 used to replace it, and v8 (blank).

Binding:

18th-century French mottled calf over paper boards (33 x 24 cm), sewn on 5 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; red edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials. Annotations: Marginal notes on leaf a2r: "Ce livre est dedie et adressant au Roy de France Charles Ve dict le sage," 15th/16th century and late 16th/17th-century inscription attributing authorship to Charles de Louvieres (see Pike, "St. Thomas Aquinas and the 'Songe du Vergier'," Speculum 14.4 (1939): 492). No marginal notations in remainder of text.

Provenance:

Unidentified signature: Vriconnet, 15th/16th century (leaf v7v); unidentified inscription: "[A?]llubigny" John E. Kerr; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Kerr collection, 1903.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Mottled calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books