Accession number
PML 621
Creator
Michault, Pierre, active 15th century.
Object title
Cest la dance des aveugles.
Published
[Bréhan-Loudéac] : [Robin Fouquet and Jean Crès], [approximately 1485]
Description
[44] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Fouquet and Crès's type 1:100G.
Signatures: A-B⁸ C-D⁶ E-F⁸: 44 leaves, leaf F8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
5 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.5 x 13 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: F8 (blank).
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Fouquet and Crès's type 1:100G.
Signatures: A-B⁸ C-D⁶ E-F⁸: 44 leaves, leaf F8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
5 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.5 x 13 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: F8 (blank).
Binding
18th-century French gilt-tooled green calf over paper boards (18 x 13 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary French inscriptions, only partially visible under UV (leaf A1r). 19th-century French bibliographic notes (leaf A1r).
Provenance
Nicolas Blonssar, inscription: "... Il la depuis transporte nicolas blonssar," partially visible under UV (leaf A1r); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 196, 8/5/96 (from Pickering) and price code: wl/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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