Accession number
PML 75064
Object title
Evangiles des quenouilles.
Uniform title
Evangiles des quenouilles.
Published
[Lyon] : [Mathias Huss and Johannes Schabeler], [approximately 1482-1483].
Description
[34] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1975.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Huss's type 1:106G.
Signatures: [a⁸?] b-c⁸ d¹⁰: 34 leaves, leaf d10 blank (presumably). Extent of quire a unknown: leaves a1-a5 unknown.
Paper format: Median quarto.
Woodcuts.
Woodcuts also used in Huss and Schabeler's De la Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes of 1483 (ISTC ib00712000).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.3 x 16.8 cm.
PML copy missing (at least) 6 leaves: a1-5 and d10.
Printed in Huss's type 1:106G.
Signatures: [a⁸?] b-c⁸ d¹⁰: 34 leaves, leaf d10 blank (presumably). Extent of quire a unknown: leaves a1-a5 unknown.
Paper format: Median quarto.
Woodcuts.
Woodcuts also used in Huss and Schabeler's De la Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes of 1483 (ISTC ib00712000).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.3 x 16.8 cm.
PML copy missing (at least) 6 leaves: a1-5 and d10.
Binding
19th-century English gilt-tooled full blue goatskin over paper boards (25 x 17.5 cm.), by Wallis & Lloyd.
Provenance
P. Deschamps; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 649, (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Emdée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes, 21 Nov. 1966 (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from André Jammes (Paris), 1975.
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