Sensuit le livre de clergie no[m]me lymage du monde tra[n]slate de lati[n] en fra[n]cois.

Accession number:

PML 41004

Uniform title:

Image du monde.

Published:

[Paris] : [Antoine Caillaut], [approximately 1485]

Description:

[46] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 19.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1949.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Caillaut's type 9:95G.
PML Checklist enters under Vincentius Bellovacensis as author and has pub. date: "[1487]".
Signatures: a-f⁸/⁶ g⁴: 46 leaves, leaf g4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
A prose version of Gossuin de Metz's Image du monde.
Woodcut initial S in title. Woodcut, leaf a1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: g4 (blank). Large hole in leaf a1, partially obscuring title and woodcut; repaired.

Binding:

Modern full blue goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Lloyd, Wallis, & Lloyd. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Title from ISTC: Livre de clergie nommé l'Image du monde

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No notations in text. Extensive early French inscription, not legible under UV (leaf g3v). Modern French bibliographic inscription (rear endleaf 1 recto).

Provenance:

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 287 (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Arthur Rau, Aug. 1949.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books