Accession number
PML 63678
Creator
Bonnor, Honoré.
Object title
Larbre des batailles.
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).
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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