Accession number:
PML 1586
Published:
[Lyon] : [no printer], [after June 1504].
Description:
[116] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Preface of Thomas Murchius, dated Blois, June 1504, dedicated to Bernadino Guasco (leaf a1v).
Signatures: a-o⁸ p⁴
Binding:
16th-century French (Paris?) panel-stamped calf over wooden boards; rebacked. 2 clasps, missing. Panels depict St. John the Evangelist on Patmos and St. James (13.1 x 8.5 cm, with acorn and mythical creature borders, with goat/star and cow/star coats-of-arms below John and James, respectively; for John panel, see British Library, Davis 320, ca. 1515).
Inscriptions/Markings:
16th-century marginal notations, mainly in first few quires.
Provenance:
Unidentified inscription in French hand: "Ay Champion, Tout pour vue" and "Ricours adieu," with later Italian inscription: "Che pio fa charcza que ne sole / Inganato ma ou Inganar me vole" (front endleaf 1 recto); Antoine Augustine Renouard (1765-1853), Bibliotheca Aldina sale, Evans, 26 June 1828, lot 917 for £4.14.6; Henry G. Bohn, Catalogue of a Very Select Collection of Books (1831), no. 490; Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield (1774-1839), Bibliotheca Butleriana sale, Christie's, 23 March 1840, lot 1695; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel (front pastedown); James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878, Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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