Accession number
PML 27522.2
Creator
Castel, Jean, -1476.
Object title
En ce present volume sont contenus troys livres. Le premier est no[m]me le specule des pecheurs. Le second livre est appelle lexortation des mondains tant gens deglise co[m]me seculiers. Le tiers livre se no[m]me lexemple des dames et damoiselles et de tout le sexe femenin.
Published
[Paris] : [Antoine Caillaut], [approximately 1482-1483]
Description
[30] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Caillaut's type 1*:83G.
Date from CIBN. A copy at Paris BN has a rubricator's date of 11 Dec. 1486. GW dated about 1500
Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁶ D⁸: 30 leaves.
L'Exortation des mondains et le Miroir des dames attributed to Jean Castel without evidence (CIBN).
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML Checklist author name form: Jean de Castel.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.6 x 13.5 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Caillaut's type 1*:83G.
Date from CIBN. A copy at Paris BN has a rubricator's date of 11 Dec. 1486. GW dated about 1500
Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁶ D⁸: 30 leaves.
L'Exortation des mondains et le Miroir des dames attributed to Jean Castel without evidence (CIBN).
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML Checklist author name form: Jean de Castel.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.6 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
Modern gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 2 supports by Charlotte M. Ullman, 1964. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Title from ISTC: Le miroir des pécheurs et des pécheresses
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Guillaume Libri (1803-1869); his sale, Sotheby's, part 5, "Reserved and Valuable," 25 July 1862, lot 121 for £9.0.0 to Tross; Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873); his sale, Sotheby's, 28 Feb. 1887, lot 214 for £1.4.0 to Ellis; Thomas Brooke (1830-1908), bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); his sale, Sotheby's, 26 May 1921; E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., cat. 100, no. 26; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt, July 1930.
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