Accession number
PML 41006
Object title
La complainte douloureuse de lame damnee
Published
[Paris] : imprime par Jehan Treperel, [approximately 1495-1498]
Description
[14] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1949.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r, with Tréperel's device.
Imprint from colophon, leaf B6r. City and date from ISTC.
Dated by Bechtel to about 1505-1511.
Printed in Tréperel's types 1:101G and 8:114G.
Signatures: A⁸ B⁶: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut, leaf A1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.3 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf B6r. City and date from ISTC.
Dated by Bechtel to about 1505-1511.
Printed in Tréperel's types 1:101G and 8:114G.
Signatures: A⁸ B⁶: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut, leaf A1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.3 cm.
Binding
Modern full red goatskin over paper boards (20 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by A. Motte. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; tilt edges.
Variant title
Complainte de l'âme damnée
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (only one initial on leaf A2r required). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 638 (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Arthur Rau, Aug. 1949.
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