Accession number
PML 23214
Creator
Chartier, Alain, active 15th century
Object title
Les fais maistre Alain Chartier notiare et secretaire du roy Charles VIe.
Published
Imprime en la ville de Paris : par Pierre Le Caron, Le .v. jour de septembre. Lan mil.iiiie.iiiixx. et noeuf [5 September 1489]
Description
[162] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1925.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf L7v: Ce present livre ou quel est traittie des fais maistre alain chartier a este, Imprime en la ville de paris par honnourable homme maistre pierre le caron expert en lart de impression demourant en la grant rue due temple ioingna[n]t a saincte avoye faisa[n]t le coing de la rue geffroy langeuin. Le .v. iour de septembre. Lan mil.iiiie.iiiixx. et noeuf.
Printed in Le Caron's types 1:100G and 6:112G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶ f-g⁸ h⁶ i¹⁰ k⁸; A-D⁸ E⁶ F-G⁸ H⁶ I-L⁸: 162 leaves, leaf k8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 woodcut (printed 3 times), geneaological diagram, and woodcut L on title page.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: k8 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf L7v: Ce present livre ou quel est traittie des fais maistre alain chartier a este, Imprime en la ville de paris par honnourable homme maistre pierre le caron expert en lart de impression demourant en la grant rue due temple ioingna[n]t a saincte avoye faisa[n]t le coing de la rue geffroy langeuin. Le .v. iour de septembre. Lan mil.iiiie.iiiixx. et noeuf.
Printed in Le Caron's types 1:100G and 6:112G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶ f-g⁸ h⁶ i¹⁰ k⁸; A-D⁸ E⁶ F-G⁸ H⁶ I-L⁸: 162 leaves, leaf k8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 woodcut (printed 3 times), geneaological diagram, and woodcut L on title page.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: k8 (blank).
Binding
Modern full red goatskin over paper boards (28 x 21 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet; rehinged. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Oeuvres
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Robert Hoe (1839-1909), book label (front pastedown), his sale, Anderson Auction Company, part IV, 11 Nov. 1912, lot 679; Paul Gruppe, stamp (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Baer & Co., 14 Dec. 1925; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Gruppe sale, Dec. 1925.
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