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Le temple de mars.

Accession number
PML 75124
Creator
Molinet, Jean, 1435-1507.
Object title

Le temple de mars.

Published

Imprime a Paris : par Le Petit Laurens, [approximately 1492]

Description

[8] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 20 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Millard Meiss in memory of her husband, Mrs. Henry S. Morgan, and Miss Julia P. Wrightman, 1977.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf a8r: Cy finist le temple de mars Dieu des batailles. Imprime a paris. Par le petit Laurens. en la rue sai[n]t Jasquez Pres saint yuez.
Printed in Le Petit Laurens's types 1:99G and 2:180G (title). Device on leaf a1r.
ISTC dates about 1492, GW about 1491.
Signatures: a⁸: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut, leaf a1v, with typographic title set in, "Mars. Dieu des batailles."
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13 cm.
Binding
Modern full red goatskin over paper boards (20 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Chambolle-Duru. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
Le temple de mars, dieu des batailles
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Raoul Léonor Lignerolles (1817-1893); his sale, Paris, part II, 5 March 1894, lot 876; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 384 (label residue visible on front pastedown), (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Emdée Maus (1905-1971), no. 271, monogram booklabel (front pastedown) and collation statement, 1953 (rear endleaf 3 recto); Librairie E. Rossignol, cat. no. 162 (1977), no. 198; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rossignol, Feb. 1977.
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