Icy est le compost et kalendrier des bergiers nouvellement reffait et autreme[n]t compose que nestoit paravant au quel sont adioustez plusieurs choses nouvelles comme ceulx qui le verront pourtont congnoistre.

Accession number:

PML 508

Uniform title:

Calendrier des bergers.

Published:

Imprime a Paris : par Guiot Marchant, Lan de grace Mil CCCC iiiixx et. xiii Le xviii iour de iuillet [18 July 1493]

Description:

[85] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m8r: Finit le compost et kalendrier des bergiers imprime a paris par Guiot marchant demourant a la fleur de lis en la rue Saint iaques. Lan de grace Mil CCCC iiiixx et. xiii Le xviii iour de iuillet. [Marchant's device on leaf m8v].
Printed in Marchant's types 2:107G, 3:105/106G, 4:76G, and 15:100G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-e⁶ f-g⁸ h¹⁺⁸ i-l⁶ m⁸: 85 leaves. Leaf .h. is a singleton bound in before quire h with a fold-out of the "Tour de sapience" on verso. Leaf i4 signed in Valenciennes copy, not in PML.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Red printing in calendar.
65 woodcuts, 1 repititon.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.2 x 18.5 cm, heavily trimmed.
PML copy missing 17 leaves: .h., k1-6, l1-2, and m1-8.

Binding:

19th-century quarter brown morocco, with mottled paper sides, over paper boards (26 x 19 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; red edges.

Variant Title:

Compost et kalendrier des bergiers

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. A few initials added later. Annotations: Some seasonal and astrological woodcuts labeld in manuscript. Extensive early inscription, faded (leaf a1r, not legible under UV).

Provenance:

De Baully, inscriptions (leaf a1v, partially visible under UV); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 125, 23/4/96 and price code: wr/s/- (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Decorated papers (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books