Accession number
PML 519
Creator
Chartier, Alain, active 15th century
Object title
Les fais maistre Alain Charetier.
Published
Imprimez a Paris : par Pierre le Caron pour Anthoine Verard, [about 1498]
Description
[134] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r: Les fais maistre alain charetier. Tous charetiers ta[n]t parfaiz que imp[ar]faiz. Qui charier veule[n]t droit sans mesprendre. De maistre alain charetier les beaulxfaiz. En ce liure mis auvray doiuent prendre.
Imprint from colophon, leaf K6r: Finissent les faiz/ dictes [et] ballades maistre Alain chartier Imprimez a paris par Pierre le caron/ Pour Anthoine verard demourant a paris sur leipont nostre dame a lymage saint Jehan levangeliste/ ou au palais au premier pillier devant la ou lon cha[n]te la messe de messeign[eu]rs les p[re]sidens. [Verard's mark]
Dated from the state of the types, Antoine Vérard's device, the calligraphed initial L and the woodcuts (CIBN). Dated not after 1494 in GW.
Printed in Le Caron's types 3:99G and 5:440G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁸ e-k⁶; A-B⁸ C⁶ D⁸ E⁶ F⁸ G-K⁶: 134 leaves, leaf k6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts and diagram.
The title page and woodcut on the verso, described in BMC belong to a reprinting of the first sheet.
PML copy with variant woodcut (leaf a1v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.4 x 18.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: k6 (blank). Leaves a4.5, a8, c3, i2, B4, C5, D4.5, and I3 remargined, perhaps from another, unknown copy, although marginal paper seems contemporary.
Imprint from colophon, leaf K6r: Finissent les faiz/ dictes [et] ballades maistre Alain chartier Imprimez a paris par Pierre le caron/ Pour Anthoine verard demourant a paris sur leipont nostre dame a lymage saint Jehan levangeliste/ ou au palais au premier pillier devant la ou lon cha[n]te la messe de messeign[eu]rs les p[re]sidens. [Verard's mark]
Dated from the state of the types, Antoine Vérard's device, the calligraphed initial L and the woodcuts (CIBN). Dated not after 1494 in GW.
Printed in Le Caron's types 3:99G and 5:440G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁸ e-k⁶; A-B⁸ C⁶ D⁸ E⁶ F⁸ G-K⁶: 134 leaves, leaf k6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts and diagram.
The title page and woodcut on the verso, described in BMC belong to a reprinting of the first sheet.
PML copy with variant woodcut (leaf a1v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.4 x 18.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: k6 (blank). Leaves a4.5, a8, c3, i2, B4, C5, D4.5, and I3 remargined, perhaps from another, unknown copy, although marginal paper seems contemporary.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (26.5 x 19 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Oeuvres
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not realized (where required). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Armand Bertin (1801-1854), bookplate (front endleaf 1 verso), many books privately sold in 1848 (not in his 15 May 1854 sale); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 46a, 21/6/99 and price code: ss/-/- (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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