Accession number
PML 498
Creator
Lucan, 39-65.
Object title
Lucan Suetoine te [sic] Saluste en francois.
Published
Imprime a Paris : par Pierre le Rouge ... pour Anthoine Verard, le xxiie iour de Decembre mil iiiiCC .iiiiXX [et] dix [22 December 1490].
Description
i-cci [4] : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 36.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf A4r: Cy finist Lucan suetoine et saluste en fra[n]coys. Imprime a paris le xxiie iour de Decembre mil iiiiCC .iiiiXX [et] dix par Pierre le Rouge Libraire du roy nostresire pour Anthoine verard marcha[n]t libraire demourant a Paris sur le pont nostredame a lymaige sainct Jehan leuangeliste ou au palays deuant la chapelle ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Printed in Le Rouge's types 2:115G and 3:236G.
Signatures: a-z [et]⁸ [con]⁸(4+1: qui eschappast); A⁴: 205 leaves. The additional leaf in quire [con] is presumably that signed [con]5; watermark evidence is inconclusive.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
Woodcuts.
A life of Julius Caesar, partly based on the Pharsalia.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35 x 25.2 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf A4r: Cy finist Lucan suetoine et saluste en fra[n]coys. Imprime a paris le xxiie iour de Decembre mil iiiiCC .iiiiXX [et] dix par Pierre le Rouge Libraire du roy nostresire pour Anthoine verard marcha[n]t libraire demourant a Paris sur le pont nostredame a lymaige sainct Jehan leuangeliste ou au palays deuant la chapelle ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Printed in Le Rouge's types 2:115G and 3:236G.
Signatures: a-z [et]⁸ [con]⁸(4+1: qui eschappast); A⁴: 205 leaves. The additional leaf in quire [con] is presumably that signed [con]5; watermark evidence is inconclusive.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
Woodcuts.
A life of Julius Caesar, partly based on the Pharsalia.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35 x 25.2 cm.
Binding
20th-century blind- and gilt-tooled full maroon goatskin over paper boards (36.5 x 27 cm), sewn on 5 supports by C.M. Ullman, 1965. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Lucan Suetoine et Saluste en francois
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, red line fillers. Woodcuts hand colored in pale washes. Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text. "Mondiue" written several times (leaf m4r) and "1693" (leaf o8r) in same hand.
Provenance
Unidentified English (Sotheby's?) sale catalogue description, lot 1372 (front endleaf, preserved from previous binding in dept. folder); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), purchase notes: No. 48a, 4/1/1900 and price code: wee/o/- (front endleaf, preserved from previous binding in dept. folder), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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