Accession number
PML 603
Object title
Le Roman de Fierabras.
Uniform title
Fierabras.
Published
Imprime a Lyon : par maistre Guillaume Le Roy, le .xx. iour de ianuier .M.CCCC.lxxxvi [20 January 1486/1487]
Description
[116] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf p5v: Cy finist Fierabras imprime a lyon par maistre guillaume le roy le .xx. iour de ianuier .M.CCCC.lxxxvi.
Printed in Le Roy's type 5*:111G.
Signatures: a-n⁸ o-p⁶: 116 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Prose version by Jean Bagnyon.
On Le Roy's editions of Fierabras, cf. Polain(B) 1483.
52 woodcuts, with repetitions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 19 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf p5v: Cy finist Fierabras imprime a lyon par maistre guillaume le roy le .xx. iour de ianuier .M.CCCC.lxxxvi.
Printed in Le Roy's type 5*:111G.
Signatures: a-n⁸ o-p⁶: 116 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Prose version by Jean Bagnyon.
On Le Roy's editions of Fierabras, cf. Polain(B) 1483.
52 woodcuts, with repetitions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 19 cm.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Victor Masséna Essling (1799-1863), duc de Rivoli, prince d'Antibes, sold in his sale, [1836, 1839, or 1847?] for fr. 900; [Martin's sale, for fr. 650 (unidentified owner, cited in Lindesiana sale)]; Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso); his sale, 9 May 1867, lot 2312 for fr. 2950; Alexander William Lindsay (1812-1880), 25th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, inherited by his son: James Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), 26th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres; Bibliotheca Lindesiana sale, Sotheby's, part I, 13 June 1887, lot 868 for £52 to Quaritch; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 194, 8/5/96 and price code: wom/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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