Accession number:
PML 499
Published:
[Paris] : [Antoine Vérard], mil.cccc.iiii.xx. et xi [1491]
Description:
[12], i-ixxxiiii, i-lxviii, [4] leaves (with mistakes in foliation); 28.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf aa1r, printed in red.
Imprint from colophon, leaf K4v: Cy fine la somme rural compilee par Jehan boutillier conseillier du roy a paris. Et imprime audit lieu lan mil.cccc.iiii.xx. et xi.
Vérard's device, leaf AA4v.
Printed in Vérard types 1:81G and 13:118G.
Signatures: aa⁸ bb⁴; a-y⁸ z⁶; A-H⁸ I⁶ K⁴; AA⁴: 272 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.8 cm.
Binding:
19th-century blind-tooled full green goatskin over paper boards (28.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Leighton, Brewer St. W. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Somme rurale
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations in text (leaves a1-2 only). Inscripton: "Ad luxonium spectat hec summa ruralum" and another one inked over/illegible, 15th century (leaf aa1r).
Provenance:
Peillard, signature and inscription, 15th century (leaf AA4v); Anatole Claudin (1833-1906), likely offered this copy for sale in 1897, seen by MacFarlane; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate and bibliographical notes: No. 331, 25/6/1901 and price code: am/-/- (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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