Accession number
PML 75546
Object title
Comment le duc aymon presenta quatre fliz au roy charlemaigne por les faire chevaliers.
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).
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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