Accession number
PML 42483
Creator
Johannes Presbyter.
Object title
Cy apres sensuyvent les nouvelles de la terre de prestre iehan.
Published
[Poitiers] : [Jean Bouyer and Pierre Bellescullée], [approximately 1491]
Description
[14] leaves ; 18 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1951.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from ISTC, derived from Bühler.
Printed in Bouyer's type 1:106/107G, using both M4 and M38 (cited by Bühler as 2*:106G).
Signatures: a⁸ b⁶: 14 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a3 signed a2.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18 x 12 cm.
Imprint from ISTC, derived from Bühler.
Printed in Bouyer's type 1:106/107G, using both M4 and M38 (cited by Bühler as 2*:106G).
Signatures: a⁸ b⁶: 14 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a3 signed a2.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18 x 12 cm.
Binding
19th-century dark green morocco over paper boards (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet (for Solar?). Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Les nouuells de la terre
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary title "preistre jhan," legible under UV (leaf a1r) and inscription: "Ih[es]u envoy syne vroom(?) est" with pen flourishes (leaf a1v). No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Louis César, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); his sale, Paris, Dec. 1783, vol. III, lot 5394; Charles-Athanase Walckenaer (1771-1852); his sale, Paris, 12 April 1853, lot 5759 for 550 fr.; Félix Solar (1815-1871); his sale, Paris, 1860, lot 2487; Jean Joseph de la Roche Lacarelle; his sale, Paris, 30 April 1888, lot 454; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus, May 1951.
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