Accession number
PML 523
Creator
Michault, Pierre, active 15th century.
Object title
La dance des aveugles.
Published
A Paris : par Le Petit Laurens, [approximately 1495]
Description
[40] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 18 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f6r: Cy finist la danse des aveugles imprimee a paris En la rue sai[n]t Jacques pres saint yvez Par le petit Laurens.
Le Petit Laurens's device with xylographic name plate, leaf a1r.
Printed in Le Petit Laurens's types 1:99G and 4*:112G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶ d-e⁸ f⁶: 40 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
7 woodcuts from 6 blocks.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.9 x 12.4 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f6r: Cy finist la danse des aveugles imprimee a paris En la rue sai[n]t Jacques pres saint yvez Par le petit Laurens.
Le Petit Laurens's device with xylographic name plate, leaf a1r.
Printed in Le Petit Laurens's types 1:99G and 4*:112G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶ d-e⁸ f⁶: 40 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
7 woodcuts from 6 blocks.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.9 x 12.4 cm.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (18 x 12.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duru, 1843. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
La danse des aveugles
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Louis César, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); his sale, Paris, part I, 12 Jan. 1784, lot 2821; [Joseph?] Lilly, Aug. 1848, sale(?) inscription (front endleaf 1 verso); Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), with shelf mark: 13.F (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, lot 2579, to Quaritch for £126, subsequently returned and in Ashburnham sale, 13 Dec. 1898, lot 105, to Bennett; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: Catal: M. No. 115, No. 30a, 13/12/98 and price code: [erased] (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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