Accession number
PML 492
Creator
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Object title
Cy commence la translacion en francoys de traictie de la premiere guerre punicque que compilla en latin ung tresnoble orateur ditalye nomme leonard de arecio environ Lan mil. CCCC.
Published
[Paris] : [Jean Du Pré (printer of Paris)], [approximately 1488-1489]
Description
[54] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Du Pré's type 10:109G, with signatures stamped (from leaf a3) in 13:112G.
Signatures: a-f⁸ g⁶: 54 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Transalted by Jean Le Bègue.
Printed as an appendix to a Livius in French (BMC VIII 35) and treated as part of that edition in CIBN L-189.
2 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.5 x 19.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Du Pré's type 10:109G, with signatures stamped (from leaf a3) in 13:112G.
Signatures: a-f⁸ g⁶: 54 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Transalted by Jean Le Bègue.
Printed as an appendix to a Livius in French (BMC VIII 35) and treated as part of that edition in CIBN L-189.
2 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.5 x 19.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1.
Binding
18th/19th-century(?) English blind-tooled calf over paper boards (27 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports; repaired by Sanford and Clarke. Brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
De la premiere guerre punicque
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubricaiton, alternating red initials and paragraph marks, red and blue initials at book incipits. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelf mark: +E.c. 114 (front endleaf 3 recto) and cut-out prints, including armorial (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 9 June 1826, lot 191 to Rodd for £0.7.0; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and notes on the type and purchase date(?): K.H. 17:3:96 (front endleaf 1 recto); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: w/wm/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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