Accession number:
PML 25984
Published:
[Besançon] : [Petrus Metlinger], [about 1486-1488]
Description:
[214] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1928.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC. GW dates as 1487-1488.
Printed in Metlinger's types 1:190G, 2:105G, and 4:106G.
Pellechet assigned to Maillet at Lyon.
Signatures: A⁸ B-C⁶ D-E⁸ F⁶ G-H⁸ I⁶ K⁸ L⁶ M-N⁸ O⁶ P-X⁸ Y¹⁰ Aa-Ff⁸: 214 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
308 woodcuts and woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.3 x 20.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: A1 (half-title page), replaced in print facsimile.
Binding:
Modern vellum over stiff paper boards (29 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant Title:
Grant herbier en francois
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Cueullet, of Nancy, inscriptions: "Cueullet [paraph] bruier de Nancy" and "Au bruyer de Nancy, Cueullet," 16th century (leaves I5r, T8v, and Aa1v, see Jacquemin de Cueullet, gruyer de Nancy, surveryor for dukes of Lorraine, late 16th century); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., Aug. 1928.
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