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Sensuivent les ditz moraulx des philosophes.

Accession number
PML 44864
Object title

Sensuivent les ditz moraulx des philosophes.

Published

Paris : Antoine Vérard, 27 April 1486.

Description

[96] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1953.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r:
Imprint from colophon, leaves o3v-4r: Cy finissent les ditz moraulx des philosophes. [leaf o4r] les quelz fure[n]t imprimez le xxvii iour davril .mil cccc.lxxxvi. pour anthoine verad libraire demoura[n]t a paris sur le po[n]t n[ost]re dame a limage saint iehan levva[n]geliste [sic] ou au palaiz au premier pillier devant le chappelle du roy.
Printed in Vérard's type 9:95G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e-k⁶/⁸ l-n⁶ o⁴: 96 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Guillaume de Tignonville.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 13.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1r (half-title page), replaced in facsimile, and bottom margins of leaves a2-3 repaired.
Binding
19th-century French blind-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (20 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duru, 1861. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Dits des philosophes
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Modern rubrication (perhaps about 1861 when rebound since included on facsimile half-title page), alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks and red marginal ruling. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus, June 1953.
Classification
Century
Department