Accession number
PML 608
Object title
Les croniq[ue]s du treschrestien [et] tres victorieux Loys de valoys feu roy de fra[n]ce ...
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.
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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