Accession number:
PML 608
Uniform title:
Chronicles: Louis XI.
Published:
[Lyon] : [Michel Topié and Jacques Heremberck], [about 1496]
Description:
[74] leaves ; 29.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
The text is attributed to Jean de Roye (CIBN).
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint according to ISTC following CIBN C-319; GW attributes printing to [Michel Topié, about 1488-1490].
Printed in Topié and Heremberck's type 2:100/101G.
Signatures: a-e⁸ f-i⁶ k¹⁰: 74 leaves, leaf k10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 20 cm.
Binding:
Modern 1/4 brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (29.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title:
Title in ISTC: Chroniques de Louis XI
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials. Annotations: Early French marginal notations sporadically throughout text, highlighting key points in text.
Provenance:
Thomas Hawley (d. 1557), officer in College of Arms under Henry VIII and Queen Mary and appointed Clarenceux King of Arms in 1536, gift inscription: "A Thomas Halway al[ias] Clare[n]seulx Roy darmes" and in another hand/ink "Je suis" (leaf a1r); Philip Yorke (1690-1764), Earl of Hardwicke, armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), Hardwicke sale, 29 June 1888; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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