Cy commence la premiere partie des quatre derrenieres choses.

Accession number:

PML 636

Author:

Gerardus, de Vliederhoven, active 14th century.

Published:

[Bruges] : [Colard Mansion?, for William Caxton], [1475-1476]

Description:

[74] leaves ; 30.5 x 22 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Collation: [1-4⁸ 5¹⁰; 6-9⁸]: 74 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [9]/8 blank.
Date based on type and paper evidence.
Explicit (leaf [9]/7v): Explicit liber de quatuor Novissimis.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy lacks 4 leaves: [1]/1, [9]/2.7, and [9]/8; leaves [9]/2.7 replaced in facsimile.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.4 x 21.3 cm For an account of the paper stocks in this copy see BMC XI 330-1.
Printed in Caxton's type 2:135B.
Rubrics printed in red.
The text is ascribed to Dionysius Carthusiensis and to Gerardus de Vliederhoven. The translator is identified in BMC as Jean Meilot.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/4r): Cy commence la premiere partie des quatre derrenieres choses qui sont a advenir...

Binding:

15th-/16th-century unstamped (originally pink) leather over wooden boards (30.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. Vellum title label on rear board. 2 strap clasps wanting.

Variant Title:

Les quattres choses derrenieres

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: Heavy notations and pen trials in margins, mostly 16th- and 17th-century. Notes of sale/purchase between Andrieu and Jehan du Buc with members of the Darc/Dare family and others (leaves [3]/3v, [3]/8r, [5]/5v, [6]/5r, [6]/8r, [7]/3r). Manuscript alpah-numeric quire signatures at bottom gutter margin, mostly trimmed. Pin holes 2.5 cm below text block and 3 cm outside.

Provenance:

Du Buc (du Busc) family inscriptions: Jehan, 1588-89 (leaves [2]/5v-6r and many others), Andrieu, 1593 (front pastedown and others), of Grand-Quevilly, Normandy; Darc family inscriptions, purchase agreements with du Buc and others: Jacques, Jehan, Rommain; Jehan Durand/Duraul(?) of Grand-Quevilly, inscription (leaves [6]/2v-3r and rear pastedown); Nicolas Durant, inscription, with Rommain Darc (leaf [5]/5v); Rouen, Celestines, Notre-Dame-du-Val, inscription: Celestinorum Rothomagensium (leaf [1]/2r); Charles-Gaspard Toustain de Richebourg (1746-1836), his sale, Sotheby's ("Books removed from the Chateau ***"), 9 July 1884, to: Bernard Quaritch, cat. 355, 1884, no. 21839, "O.V. Miscell." 10, no. 16, General Cat. VI, 1887, no. 37900; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 113, 12/3/96 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Color printing (Printing)

Point holes (Printing)

Leather binding (Bindings)

Department:

Printed Books