Les dictz des oyseuax et des bestes par hystores.

Accession number:

PML 47297

Published:

Imprime a Chaalons : par Estienne Bally, [approximately 1500-1503]

Description:

[8] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows, 1956.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [1]/8r: Imprime a chaalons Par Estienne bally Imprimeur demourant devant n[ost]re dame en vaulx pres la grosse teste. A G.
Dated by CIBN (p. 660) and PML Checklist after 1500. J.M. Arnoult, Répertoire bibl., fasc. 17, p.7 dated between 1493 and 1503. Bechtel, Catalogue gothiques (D-280) dates 1500-1503.
Collation unknown: PML fragment is only 8 leaves and BnF fragment is 6. PML, leaf 5 is signed B2.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts.
Chart made from woodcut border pieces with headings "Sola" and "fides sufficit" (leaf [1]/8v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.4 x 13.5 cm.

Binding:

19th-century blind-stamped tan calf over wooden boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain vellum pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; yellow edges.

Variant Title:

Dits des Oiseaux et des Bêtes

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Leaves recovered from the binding of an unknown work (from Arenberg library?); Louis-Prosper, duc d'Arenberg, No. 88 (front cover label), armorial stamp on binding and ink armorial stamp: oval with 3 stars and motto "CH Protector Meus" stamped in blue (leaf 1r), Arenberg had a second, incomplete copy that he gave to Brunet, which is now in Paris, BnF; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased (Dec. 1955) from Lathrop C. Harper as the gift of the Fellows, 1956.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Century:

16th century

Department:

Printed Books