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Cy commence la premiere partie des quatre derrenieres choses.

Accession number
PML 636
Creator
Gerardus, de Vliederhoven, active 14th century.
Object title

Cy commence la premiere partie des quatre derrenieres choses.

Published

[Bruges] : [Colard Mansion?, for William Caxton], [1475-1476]

Description

[74] leaves ; 30.5 x 22 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Collation: [1-4⁸ 5¹⁰; 6-9⁸]: 74 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [9]/8 blank.
Date based on type and paper evidence.
Explicit (leaf [9]/7v): Explicit liber de quatuor Novissimis.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy lacks 4 leaves: [1]/1, [9]/2.7, and [9]/8; leaves [9]/2.7 replaced in facsimile.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.4 x 21.3 cm For an account of the paper stocks in this copy see BMC XI 330-1.
Printed in Caxton's type 2:135B.
Rubrics printed in red.
The text is ascribed to Dionysius Carthusiensis and to Gerardus de Vliederhoven. The translator is identified in BMC as Jean Meilot.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/4r): Cy commence la premiere partie des quatre derrenieres choses qui sont a advenir...
Binding
15th-/16th-century unstamped (originally pink) leather over wooden boards (30.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. Vellum title label on rear board. 2 strap clasps wanting.
Variant title
Les quattres choses derrenieres
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: Heavy notations and pen trials in margins, mostly 16th- and 17th-century. Notes of sale/purchase between Andrieu and Jehan du Buc with members of the Darc/Dare family and others (leaves [3]/3v, [3]/8r, [5]/5v, [6]/5r, [6]/8r, [7]/3r). Manuscript alpah-numeric quire signatures at bottom gutter margin, mostly trimmed. Pin holes 2.5 cm below text block and 3 cm outside.
Provenance
Du Buc (du Busc) family inscriptions: Jehan, 1588-89 (leaves [2]/5v-6r and many others), Andrieu, 1593 (front pastedown and others), of Grand-Quevilly, Normandy; Darc family inscriptions, purchase agreements with du Buc and others: Jacques, Jehan, Rommain; Jehan Durand/Duraul(?) of Grand-Quevilly, inscription (leaves [6]/2v-3r and rear pastedown); Nicolas Durant, inscription, with Rommain Darc (leaf [5]/5v); Rouen, Celestines, Notre-Dame-du-Val, inscription: Celestinorum Rothomagensium (leaf [1]/2r); Charles-Gaspard Toustain de Richebourg (1746-1836), his sale, Sotheby's ("Books removed from the Chateau ***"), 9 July 1884, to: Bernard Quaritch, cat. 355, 1884, no. 21839, "O.V. Miscell." 10, no. 16, General Cat. VI, 1887, no. 37900; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 113, 12/3/96 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department