Quatre choses derrenieres.

Accession number:

PML 47298

Author:

Gerardus, de Vliederhoven, active 14th century.

Published:

Audenarde : [Arend de Keysere], [1480-1481]

Description:

[152] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 20.5 x 14 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1955.

Notes:

4 woodcuts.
Bearer type on leaf a4r.
Collation: a-t⁸: 152 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Colophon (leaf t8r): Pryez po[r] limpresseur de ce livre tresexcellent A audenarde impresse/ po[r] instrauire toute gent. [woodcut cartouche]
Dates from HPT. Goff dates to about 1482.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.3 cm
PML copy wanting 4 leaves: a1 (blank), e2, k1 and k2.
Printed in de Keysere's type 1:97G.
The text is ascribed to Dionysius Carthusiensis and to Gerardus de Vliederhoven.
Title from text.

Binding:

18th-century tree calf over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; all edges gilt.

Variant Title:

Quatre fins de l'homme

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No notations in text. Inscription on leaf t8v pasted over. 18th/19th-century French inscriptions on front fly verso: title and bibliographic note.

Provenance:

St. Omer (Longuenesse, Pas-de-Calais), Carthusians of Val de Saint-Aldegonde, inscriptions: "Liber cartusiensium p[ro]pe s[an]ctu[m] audomaru[m]. Appertient aux cartreulx loez la ville de sanctomer," "Quattuor novissima i[n] gallico," and shelf marks: Exxxiiii (crossed out, and replaced with) E 189, 15th century (leaf a2r); Engelbert-Auguste, duc d'Arenberg (1824-1875), no. 755 (blue spine label) and inventory code B,4 (first fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Dec. 1955.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Shelf marks (Provenance)

Tree calf bindings (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books