Accession number
PML 22940
Object title
[Coutumes de Normandie].
Published
[Paris] : [Jean Du Pré (printer of Paris)], Anno domini millesimoquadringentesimooctavagesimotercio [1483]
Description
[342] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1925.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Date from colophon, leaf mm7r: Finit tractatus magistri Johannis andree super arboribus consanguineitatis. affinitatis necno[n] spiritulalis congantionis. Anno d[omi]ni millesimoquadringe[n]tesimooctavagesimotercio.
First explicit, leaf ā5v: Cy finist lexposicion du livre coustumier du pays de normendie.
Second explicit, leaf hh8v: Finit liber iuriu[m] ac consuetudinu[m] ducatus norma[n]nie.
Printed in Du Pré's types 1:105G, 4:135G, 9:84G, and 18:71G.
Signatures: [1]¹⁰; a-p⁸ q⁶ [curled-r] r [long-s] s-t⁸ v¹⁰ u x-z [con] [rum]⁸ [tur] ā⁶; aa-hh⁸ ii¹⁰; kk⁸ ll⁴; mm¹⁰: 342 leaves, leaves [1]/1, ā6, and mm10 blank. Leaves [1]/2-5 signed ii-v.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy is Le chartre aux Normans (quire kk) only.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19 cm.
Date from colophon, leaf mm7r: Finit tractatus magistri Johannis andree super arboribus consanguineitatis. affinitatis necno[n] spiritulalis congantionis. Anno d[omi]ni millesimoquadringe[n]tesimooctavagesimotercio.
First explicit, leaf ā5v: Cy finist lexposicion du livre coustumier du pays de normendie.
Second explicit, leaf hh8v: Finit liber iuriu[m] ac consuetudinu[m] ducatus norma[n]nie.
Printed in Du Pré's types 1:105G, 4:135G, 9:84G, and 18:71G.
Signatures: [1]¹⁰; a-p⁸ q⁶ [curled-r] r [long-s] s-t⁸ v¹⁰ u x-z [con] [rum]⁸ [tur] ā⁶; aa-hh⁸ ii¹⁰; kk⁸ ll⁴; mm¹⁰: 342 leaves, leaves [1]/1, ā6, and mm10 blank. Leaves [1]/2-5 signed ii-v.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy is Le chartre aux Normans (quire kk) only.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19 cm.
Binding
19th-century half parchment, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; red edges.
Variant title
Checklist title: Grand coutumier de Normandie
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary inscriptions, abraded but partially legible under UV (leaf kk8r-v).
Provenance
Edward Jackson Barron (d. 1918), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); two unidentified (Barron?) price codes and date: s/is/- and py/s Oct/77 (rear endleaf 7 recto); Ellis, cat. 231 (1925), no. 226; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Ellis, Oct. 1925.
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