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Les exposicions des evvangilles en romant.

Accession number
PML 75082
Creator
Maurice, of Sully, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1120-1196.
Object title

Les exposicions des evvangilles en romant.

Published

Imprimees a Chambery : Par Anthoine Neyret, Lan de grace M.cccc.lxxxiiii. Le .vi. iour du moys de iuillet [6 July 1484].

Description

[74] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28.5 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1976.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf E4v: Cy finist lexposition des evva[n]gilles et des epistres de tout lan translatees de nouveau de latin en francoys Imprimees A chambery Par Anthoine neyret. Lan de grace M.cccc.lxxxiiii. Le .vi. iour du moys de iuillet. Deo gratias.
Printed in Neyret's type 1:119/120G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-c⁶ d-e⁸; A-D⁸ E⁶: 74 leaves, leaf E6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 18.2 cm.
Binding
Contemporary blind-filleted calf over wooden boards (28.5 x 19 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Expositions des Evangiles en françois
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, red capital strokes. Annotations: 1 contemporary notation, leaf d7r.
Provenance
H.P. Kraus, cat. 131 (1971); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Kraus, 1976.
Classification
Century
Department