Accession number
PML 17521
Uniform title
Coutumes du Poitou.
Published
[Poitiers] : [Jean I de Marnef] Et sont a vendre es enseignes de la fleur de lys et du Pellican a Paris et a Poitiers, [1514].
Description
[2], iii-lxxxviii, [2] leaves ; 19 x 13 cm (4to)
Notes
Imprint from Rep. biblio.
The pellican was Marnef's shop identification and the fleur-de-lis was Jean Petit of Paris.
Signatures: a-l⁸ m²
Edition not recorded in Pettegree, French Books.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: b7 (folio 15). Quire a with lea
The pellican was Marnef's shop identification and the fleur-de-lis was Jean Petit of Paris.
Signatures: a-l⁸ m²
Edition not recorded in Pettegree, French Books.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: b7 (folio 15). Quire a with lea
Binding
16th-century French (Paris) dark brown calf, blind (or silver?)- and gold-tooled with Francis I's coat of arms and salamander emblem, probably for François I by the Louis XII-François I Bindery (perhaps Simon Vostre, d. 1521), dated by Nixon about 1515.
Provenance
Perhaps François I (1494-1547), binding, or perhaps bound for royal officials; Félix Solar (1815-1871), his sale, part II, 15-17 Nov. 1861, lot 422, for Fr1545, to: Leopold Double (1812-1881), armorial booklabel his sale, 24 March 1863, lot 327; Ambrois
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