Accession number:
PML 55184
Uniform title:
Bible. Psalms. Latin. 1586.
Published:
Paris : Ches Iamet Mettayer Imprimeur du Roy, 1586.
Credit:
Purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund, 1965.
Description:
6 p.l., [235] leaves. : ill. ; 28 cm
Notes:
"Cantiqves," leaves 219-235, in Latin.
Brunet, Livre illustré en France au XVIe siècle, p. 135, 288.
Illustrations: engraved title vignette and 1 full-page engraving, both depicting David at prayer.
Printed in red and black.
Ruled in red.
Binding:
16th-century French full brown morocco, tooled in silver (now oxidized), with macabre symbols and emblems of mortality, with armorial of Henri III and Louise de Lorraine on rear cover; silver (now oxidized) edges. Bound for a member of the penitential confraternities that Henri III founded (see Nixon, Sixteenth-century gold-tooled bindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, no. 55, p. 217).
Provenance:
Unidentified inscriptions in pencil: Matilde S[??]rozza and Augusto Ricci, with multiple numeric tables (front and rear endleaves); George Nestle-John, his sale, Joseph Baer & Co. (Frankfurt), 6 Oct. 1931, no. 138; J.R. Abbey, no. 2040, purchased 21 April 1939, his sale, Sotheby's London, 21-23 June 1965, lot 569, purchased by: Pierpont Morgan Library (via H.D. Lyon), July 1965.
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