Accession number:
PML 597
Published:
[Geneva] : [Jean Croquet], [approximately 1480]
Description:
[114] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902. NNP
Notes:
Title from beginning of text on leaf a2r.
Explicit, leaf p7v: Explicit liber de casu troie.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Croquet's type 1:101/102G.
Signatures: a-f⁸ g-h⁶ i-n⁸ o⁶ p⁸: 114 leaves, leaves a1 and p8 blank.
Initial spaces, without guide letters.
The Sankt Peter copy has an owner's note with the date 1484.
Binding:
18th-century gilt-tooled paneled calf over paper boards (27 x 20 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title:
Explicit title: Liber de casu troie
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notation in text. Contemporary manuscript title (leaf p8v).
Provenance:
Nantes, Carthusians, Sts. Donatian and Rogatian, inscription: "Pro carthusiensibus Sanctorum Donatiani et Rogatiani propre Nannet," early 16th century (leaf p7v); Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: C 5: 45 (front fly leaf verso), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough, shelf mark: 56 b. 9 (front fly leaf verso); Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, Puttick & Simpson, part II, 17 April 1882, lot 3730, purchased by Quaritch: Sunderland Library Blenheim Palace bookplate, purchased April 1882 (front pastedown); H. Gosden, inscription, 24 April 1882 (rear fly leaf); Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue of Medieval Literature (1890), no. 199; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896 and then sold off the duplicates (Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1898), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and price code: w/-/- +___ (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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