Accession number:
PML 59700
Uniform title:
Bible. French. 1473.
Published:
[Lyon] : [Guillaume Le Roy for Barthélemy Buyer], [approximately 1473-1475]
Description:
[288] leaves ; 30.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Gift of the Fellows, 1969.
Notes:
Title and imprint from ISTC.
PML Checklist dates as [1474].
Printed in Le Roy's type 1:115G.
Collation: [1⁶; 2-28¹⁰ 29¹²]: 288 leaves, leaves [1]/6 and [29]/11-12 blank (presumably).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
An abridged version of biblical history, plus the Seven Ages of Man at end.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 21.2 cm.
PML copy missing 44 leaves: [1]⁶, [2]¹⁰, [3]/1-3.8-10, [28]/3-10, and [29]¹².
Binding:
Unbound, contemporary sewn textblock on 3 supports.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: Biblia Gallica
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red and blue initials and yellow capital strokes; red rubrics. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Modern pencil attempts at foliation.
Provenance:
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus as the gift of the Fellows, May 1969.
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