Les quatre filz aymon.

Accession number:

PML 611

Uniform title:

Aymon.

Published:

Imprimee a Lyon : [Jean de Vingle?], le .xx. jour de moys dapuril lan mil quatre cens nonante trois [20 April 1493].

Description:

[134] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

28 woodcut illustrations. Printed initials.
Collation: a⁸ b-l⁶ m⁸ n-t⁶ v-x⁸: 134 leaves, leaf x8 blank.
Colophon (leaf x7r): Cy finist lhystoire du noble [et] vaillant chevalier regnault de montauban. Imprimee a lyon le .xx. jour de moys dapuril lan mil quatre cens nonante trois.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy is only known copy (ISTC and GW as of 24 July 2015).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.7 x 17.5 cm, trimmed.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: d2 (replaced in manuscript prior to Solar sale at least) and x8 (blank).
Printed in type 5:96B, which cannot definitely be associated with de Vingle at this date; formerly also attributed to Claude Dayne (cf. CIBN C-178).
Title from half-title page (leaf a1r): Les quatre filz aymon.

Binding:

18th-century French red morocco with gilt-tooled decoration over paper boards (26 x 18 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedown and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Les quatre fils Aymon

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Phelipes Champenoys, of Paris, inscription living on Rue St. Jacques near cloister of St. Benoit, ca. 1500 (leaf x7v); Chauberon, of Paris, ownership inscription living near Notre Dame de Paris, with inheritance inscription by his son, early 16th century (leaf x7r); Louis César, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); his sale, Paris, 1783, part II/2, lot 4031, sold for 20 francs; Félix Solar (1815-1871); his sale, 19 Nov. 1860, lot 1856, sold for 1000 francs; Jean Chedeau de Saumur, round armorial ink stamp (second front fly leaf recto); his sale, 3 April 1865, lot 800; Joseph Renard, bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, 21 March 1881, lot 891, sold for 1050 francs; James Lindsay, earl of Crawford (1847-1913), Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate (front pastedown) and signature and inscription (second front fly leaf recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 13 June 1887, lot 1678, to Quaritch for £41; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and price code lo/wm/- (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books