Accession number
PML 75066
Creator
Le Franc, Martin, approximately 1410-1461.
Object title
Le champion des dames.
Published
[Lyon] : [Printer of the Champion des Dames (Jean Du Pré (printer of Lyon)?)], [before May 1488]
Description
[186] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1975.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC. GW dates about 1485-1490.
On the printer (designated by Proctor the Printer of the Complainte de l'âme damnée), see BMC VIII pp.lvi and 281.
Printed in the type Printer of the Champion des Dames (Jean Du Pré (printer of Lyon)) 1:121G.
Signatures: a-x⁸ y-z A⁶: 186 leaves, leaf A6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
63 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.5 cm.
Imprint from ISTC. GW dates about 1485-1490.
On the printer (designated by Proctor the Printer of the Complainte de l'âme damnée), see BMC VIII pp.lvi and 281.
Printed in the type Printer of the Champion des Dames (Jean Du Pré (printer of Lyon)) 1:121G.
Signatures: a-x⁸ y-z A⁶: 186 leaves, leaf A6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
63 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.5 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century French green morocco over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Modern (19th/early 20th-century?) illuminated initials (leaf a2r) and rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, paragraph marks, and line fillers (likely modern additions due to style and vibrancy of colors). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Lucien Double (1846-1895), armorial booklabel, "Ex museo Double" (front pastedown), not in his sale, Paris, 22 March 1897; Sir Thomas Brooke, Bart. of Armitage Bridge (1830-1908), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), not recorded in Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Collected by Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., and Preserved at Armitage Bridge House, near Huddersfield (1891), collection inherited and dispersed through various sources, see De Ricci, English Book Collectors, 167-68, including his sale, Sotheby's, 26 May 1921; Edmée Maus (1905-1971), no. 977, monogram booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from André Jammes, 1975.
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