Hystoria del emp[er]ador Carlo Magno y delos doze pares de Francia & dela cruda batalla que ouo Oliveros con Fierabras, Rey de Alexandria, hijo del grande almirante Balan.

Accession number:

PML 31538

Uniform title:

Fierabras. Spanish. 1521.

Published:

Sevilla : por Jacobo cro[m]berger aleman, Acabo se a veynte [et] q[ua]tro dias del mes de abril. Año del nascimiento de nuestrop salvador Jesu christo de mill [et] quinientos [et] veynte [et] uno [ 24 April 1521].

Description:

xlvi leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 31 x 22 cm. (folio)

Credit:

Purchased in 1935.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Colophon (leaf f5r): A honor [et] gloria de dios todo poderoso: [et] dela sacratissima virgen Maria madre suya [et] señora nuestra. Fue impressa la presente hystoria del Emperador Carlo magno: [et] delos doze pares de Francia enla muy noble [et] muy leal cibdad [sic] de Sevilla por Jacobo cro[m]berger aleman. Acabo se a veynte [et] q[ua]tro dias del mes de abril. Año del nascimiento de nuestrop salvador Jesu christo de mill [et] quinientos [et] veynte [et] uno.
Signatures: a-e⁸ f⁶: 46 leaves.
Index on leaves f5v-6v.
Probably first edition.
Printed in two columns of 48 lines, 23.6 x 16 cm. (not including headline and signature).
Woodcuts: woodcut of Charlemagne on half-title page, 16 column-width woodcuts in text, woodcut intials.
Translated by Nicolas de Piemonte.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 21 cm.

Binding:

19th-century English gilt- and blind-tooled red morocco by Bedford.

Variant Title:

Hystoria del emperador Carlo Magno

Provenance:

Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown), Huth sale, Sotheby's, 15 Nov. 1911, lot 1319 (to Quaritch?); Bernard Quaritch, collation statement by F.S. Ferguson, 27 June 1912; John B. Stetson, Jr., his sale, American Art Association/Anderson Galleries, 17-18 April 1935, lot 64, via A.S.W. Rosenbach to Pierpont Morgan Library.

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