Accession number
PML 75069
Object title
Maistre Pierre Pachelin.
Uniform title
Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin.
Published
Imprimee a Paris : par Pierre le Caron, [after 1496]
Description
[38] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased in 1975.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f8r: Ce finist la farce de maistre pierre pathelin. Imprimee a paris par Pierre le Caron imprimeur demoura[n]t a paris a lenseigne de la rose en la rue de la iuifrie ou a la gra[n]t porte de palais.
Printed in Le Caron's types 3:99G and 5:440G. Le Caron's device, leaf a1r.
Signatures: a-e⁶ f⁸: 38 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
6 woodcuts from 5 blocks (block on leaf e5r repeated on f8v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 12 cm.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: f3-6, replaced in type facsimile.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f8r: Ce finist la farce de maistre pierre pathelin. Imprimee a paris par Pierre le Caron imprimeur demoura[n]t a paris a lenseigne de la rose en la rue de la iuifrie ou a la gra[n]t porte de palais.
Printed in Le Caron's types 3:99G and 5:440G. Le Caron's device, leaf a1r.
Signatures: a-e⁶ f⁸: 38 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
6 woodcuts from 5 blocks (block on leaf e5r repeated on f8v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 12 cm.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: f3-6, replaced in type facsimile.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled red goatskin, with black goatskin inlays, over paper boards (19.5 x 13 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Niédrée, 1846. Blue morocco doublures, with marbled paper and plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified French inscription, 16th/17th century (leaf a1v, not legible under UV); Armand Bertin (1801-1854), oval booklabel (front endleaf 3 recto); his sale, Paris, 4 May 1854, lot 673 for fr.600; Max-Louis de Clinchamp, marquis de Clinchamp, gilt booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 435, (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Emdée Maus (1905-1971), no. 1065, monogram booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from André Jammes, 1975.
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