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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
Object title

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.

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
Century
Department