Larbre des batailles.

Accession number: 
PML 63678
Author: 
Bonnor, Honoré.
Published: 
[Lyon] : [Guillaume Le Roy], [approxiately 1480]
Description: 
[176] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of the Heineman Foundation, Com. C. Alexander Buhler, and Mr. Daniel Leopold Wildenstein, 1973.
Notes: 

The author's real name is Bouvet according to G. Ouy, in Romania 80 (1959) pp.255-57 (CIBN).
Title from explicit, leaf z3r: Cy la fine de ce present livre intitule labre des batailles.
Imprint from ISTC. Dated by GW.
Printed in Le Roy's type 1***:115G.
Signatures: [a⁴] b-y⁸ z⁴: 176 leaves, leaf z4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.5 x 18.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: z4 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern French inlaid and gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (27 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Hardy-Mennil, with Marius Michel, finisher. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

L' arbre des batailles

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and pale yellow capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified 15th-century armorial (top half red, bottom half blue) painted in initials (leaves [a]1r and b3r); Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, part I, Sotheby's, 15 Nov. 1911, lot 834; Edmée Maus (1905-1971), no. 38, monogram booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographic notes, purchased 1967 (rear endleaf 3 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Engelberts-Jammes on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of the Heineman Foundation, Com. C. Alexander Buhler, and Mr. Daniel Leopold Wildenstein, March 1973.
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