Accession number:
PML 17647
Published:
[Paris] : [Jean Tréperel], [approximately 1492]
Description:
[6] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
The two other Paris editions of this combination are later, according to Bühler, who dated 'about 1495'. This first edition of Balbus's poem, however, most likely appeared in 1492-3: cf.C. Csapodi in Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1965), 122.
Printed in Tréperel's type 4:76G.
Signatures: A⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.7 cm.
Binding:
Modern half parchment, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Voynich, June 1911.
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