Accession number:
PML 56347
Published:
[Poitiers] : [Jean Bouyer and Guillaume Bouchet], [approximately 1497]
Description:
[12] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1967.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bouyer's types 8:96G and 11:76G.
GW dates as about 1498.
Signatures: a-b⁶: 12 leaves. Signed to the sheet.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Edited by Bertrandus Baudon.
Printer's mark, leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 13.8 cm.
Binding:
19th-century dark red morocco over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Title in ISTC: De destructione Constantinopolitana, sive De ultione Trojanorum contra Graecos
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary interlinear and marginal notations sporadically throughout, heavy at times, in 2 hands.
Provenance:
Maggs Bros., cat. 533 (1930), no. 53, supposedly acquired from Émile Nourry (i.e. Pierre Saintyves), who had separated a Sammelband of 11 rare Poitiers incunabula (see letter from Clifford Maggs in ChL 1596T file); Gaston Ruddoff, of Santiago, Chile, inscription: "Ex libris G. Ruddoff" (front endleaf 1 recto); Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., included stock of Ruddoff books at death of Bernardo Mendel (who purchased the firm in 1952), 1967; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in 1967.
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