Accession number
PML 66111.1
Object title
Le doctrinal des nouuelles mariees.
Published
[Paris] : [Antoine Caillaut], [approximately 1490]
Description
[6] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut) ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, with the special assistance of the Heineman Foundation, Mr. Frederick R. Koch, Mr. Jack Rudin, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Salomon, and Mr. Melvin R. Seiden, 1975.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r, with woodcut initial L.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Caillaut's type 14:112G.
Signatures: a⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut on leaf a1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Caillaut's type 14:112G.
Signatures: a⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut on leaf a1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 cm.
Binding
19th-century French full citron goatskin, with inlay centerpiece design, over paper boards (19.5 x 13 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
Doctrinal des nouvelles mariées
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Extensive contemporary French inscriptions, visible but illegible under UV (leaves a1r and a6v).
Provenance
Raoul Léonor Lignerolles (1817-1893); his sale, Paris, part II, 5 March 1894, lot 1120; Edmée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso), no. 102; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from G. Heilbrun on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, with the special assistance of the Heineman Foundation, Mr. Frederick R. Koch, Mr. Jack Rudin, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Salomon, and Mr. Melvin R. Seiden, Feb. 1975.
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