Accession number
PML 619
Creator
Dupin, Jean.
Object title
Cy commence le prologue du livre de[n] bo[n]ne vie qui est appelle ma[n]devie.
Published
Chambery en Savoye : par ung dit Anthoine Neyret, Ce moys de may tant verderet / Lan courant mil et quatre cens / Quatre vings et .v. le bien sens [May 1485].
Description
[132] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a3r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r4v: Imprime tout par bonne voye / Dedans chambery en savoye / Par ung dit anthoine neyret / Ce moys de may tant verderet / Lan courant mil et quatre cens / Quatre vings et .v. le bien sens / Dont loue soit le tout puissant / Et sa doulce mere. Amen. Cy commancent les melancolies iehan de pin sur les condicio[n]s de ce mo[n]de...
Printed in Neyret's type 1:119/120G.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-k⁸ l⁶ m-p⁸ q-r⁶: 132 leaves, leaves a1 and r5-6 blank. (Even though signed to 3, quire r might only be 4 leaves?)
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Book VIII, incipit: Cy commance le viii. livre qui est appelle la somme de la vision Jehan du pin...
2 woodcuts and various woodcut initials, some with Savoy arms and motto "Fert", and several woodcut initials with printer's initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.3 x 17.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: r5-6 (blanks), and with 4 leaves remargined (from another copy): a2, r1, r3-4.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r4v: Imprime tout par bonne voye / Dedans chambery en savoye / Par ung dit anthoine neyret / Ce moys de may tant verderet / Lan courant mil et quatre cens / Quatre vings et .v. le bien sens / Dont loue soit le tout puissant / Et sa doulce mere. Amen. Cy commancent les melancolies iehan de pin sur les condicio[n]s de ce mo[n]de...
Printed in Neyret's type 1:119/120G.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-k⁸ l⁶ m-p⁸ q-r⁶: 132 leaves, leaves a1 and r5-6 blank. (Even though signed to 3, quire r might only be 4 leaves?)
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Book VIII, incipit: Cy commance le viii. livre qui est appelle la somme de la vision Jehan du pin...
2 woodcuts and various woodcut initials, some with Savoy arms and motto "Fert", and several woodcut initials with printer's initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.3 x 17.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: r5-6 (blanks), and with 4 leaves remargined (from another copy): a2, r1, r3-4.
Binding
19th-century full brown morocco over paper boards (25 x 18 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Blind-tooled red morocco pastedowns, with marbled paper and plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Le livre de bonne vie, appelé Mandevie
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, except red lombards on leaves r1 and r3 which are from another copy. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription (shelfmark?): 6A (leaf a3r); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 204, 15/5/96 and price code: yo/-/- +com (front endleaf 2 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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