Accession number:
PML 75546
Published:
[Lyon] : [Printer of 'L'Abusé en court'], [approximately 1485]
Description:
[236] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Dr. Beatrice Bishop Berle in memory of her father, Cortlandt Field Bishop, 1977.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Explicit, leaf N7v: Cy finist listoire du noble et vaillant chevallier regnault de monauban. Deo gracias.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of "L'Abusé en court"'s type 1:147G.
CIBN R-86 dates about 1483-1485.
Signatures: a⁶; b-q⁸ r⁶ A-I L-N⁸: 236 leaves, leaves a1 and N8 blank (presumably).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
5 woodcuts, woodcut initials.
Woodcut captions printed in red, leaf a2r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 21 cm, heavily trimmed, affecting many initials but not text.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and N8 (blanks).
Binding:
19th-century English blind-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (28.5 x 22.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Leighton. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Renaut de Montauban
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Nicolas Moreau (ca. 1544-1619), inscriptions: "Des Livres de Nicolas Moreau Sieur d'Auteuil du xx.me Mars [MD]lxxix. A Lami Son Coeur" (leaves a2r and N7v); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 465; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Robert Vallette on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Dr. Beatrice Bishop Berle in memory of her father, Cortlandt Field Bishop, 1977.
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