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La dance des aveugles.

Accession number
PML 75067
Creator
Michault, Pierre, active 15th century.
Object title

La dance des aveugles.

Published

Imprimee a Lion : [Guillaume Le Roy], [approximately 1485-1486]

Description

[44] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1975.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Printing city from colophon, leaf f4r: Cy finist la dance des aveugles imprimee a lion.
Printed in Le Roy's types 4:200G and 5:108/109G.
Signatures: a-e⁸ f⁴: 44 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 12.5 cm.
Binding
19th-century full brown goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 13 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
La danse des aveugles
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 376, (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Emdée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front pastedown), no. 1046; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from André Jammes (Paris), 1975.
Classification
Century
Department