Accession number
PML 75582
Creator
Caoursin, Guillaume, -1501, translator.
Object title
Exordium in volumen stabilime[n]to[rum] Rhodio[rum] militu[m] ordinis hospitalis sa[n]cti ioha[n]nis iherosolimitani.
Published
[Paris] : P[ierre] L[e Dru], [between 5 August 1493 and April 1495]
Description
[126] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Francis Kettaneh, 1978.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Printer identified from colophon, leaf q5v: P L.
Printed in Le Dru's type 1:117G.
Dated from the type by CIBN.
Signatures: a-p⁸ q⁶: 126 leaves, leaf q6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut border, leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 20.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: q6 (blank).
Printer identified from colophon, leaf q5v: P L.
Printed in Le Dru's type 1:117G.
Dated from the type by CIBN.
Signatures: a-p⁸ q⁶: 126 leaves, leaf q6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut border, leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 20.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: q6 (blank).
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled full red goatskin, with arms of the Bibliothèque de Mello, over paper boards (30 x 21 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Belz-Niédrée. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Stabilimentorum Rhodiorum militum ordinis hospitalis sancti iohannis iherosolimitani
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Light red ruling lines around text. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Bibliothèque de Mello, armorial binding, his sale, Sotheby's, 28 Feb. 1887, lot 1008, purchased by James Toovey for £39.10; William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst (1835-1909), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's London, 3 Dec. 1908, lot 166; unidentified blue ink stamp, possibly with initials (front endleaf 2 recto); unidentified inscription: "von C. Lang gek[auft] 1921 Gdt." (rear endleaf 1 recto); Francis Kettaneh, booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Mrs. Francis Kettaneh, May 1978.
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