Accession number
PML 76423
Object title
La vie saint jehan baptiste.
Published
[Lyon] : [Printer of the 'Champion des Dames' (Jean Du Pré (printer of Lyon)?)], [approximately 1488-1490].
Description
[6] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 18 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purhcased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, with the special assistance of Arthur Haddaway, Mrs. John C. Hughes, E. A. G. Manton, Jack Rudin, Martin Segal, and John Slocum, 1980.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the 'Champion des Dames''s type 1:121G (Du Pré's type 22:121G).
On the printer (designated by Proctor the Printer of the Complainte de l'âme damnée) see BMC pp. lvi and 281.
Signatures: a⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
24 lines per page. 1 initial space, with guide letter (leaf a2r).
1 woodcut of John the Baptist, leaf a1r and repeated on a1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.3 x 12 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the 'Champion des Dames''s type 1:121G (Du Pré's type 22:121G).
On the printer (designated by Proctor the Printer of the Complainte de l'âme damnée) see BMC pp. lvi and 281.
Signatures: a⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
24 lines per page. 1 initial space, with guide letter (leaf a2r).
1 woodcut of John the Baptist, leaf a1r and repeated on a1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.3 x 12 cm.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (18 x 12.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Bauzonnet(?). Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Joseph Crozet (d. 1841); his sale, part II, 2 Dec. 1841, lot 32, to Colomb de Batines for 75 fr.; Paul Colomb de Batines (1811-1855); Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel, no. 398 (front endleaf 1 verso); his sale, part I, 9 May 1867, lot 398 for 82 livres (in red morocco by Niedrée); [Techener -- cited in PML description but what evidence?]; Raoul Leonor du Tranchant, comte de Lignerolles (1817-1893); his sale, Paris, part II, 1894, lot 1147 (in red morocco by Bauzonnet); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 574 (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet); Edmée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto) and notes (front endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Malle on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, with the special assistance of Arthur Haddaway, Mrs. John C. Hughes, E. A. G. Manton, Jack Rudin, Martin Segal, and John Slocum, May 1980.
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