Accession number
PML 62290
Object title
Cy conmence listoire du vaillant chevalier pierres filz du conte de provence et de la belle maguelonne fille du roi de naples.
Published
[Lyon] : [Martin Huss], [approximately 1479-1481]
Description
[42] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, with the special assistance of Miss Alice Tully, 1972.
Notes
The text is attributed to Bernard de Treviez or to Philippe Camus (CIBN).
Title from incipit, leaf a1r: Au nom de nostre seigneur ih[es]ucrist cy conmence listoire du vaillant chevalier pierres filz du conte de provence et de la belle maguelonne fille du roi de naples ordonne en cestuy langage a lonneur de dieu de la vierge marie [et] de mo[n] seigneur fai[n]ct pierre de maguelonne du quel lesditz pierre et maguelonne ont este premiers fo[n]dateurs Et fut mis en cestui la[n]gage lan mil CCCC liii eu la maniere qui sensuit.
Imprint from ISTC.
GW dates as about 1480.
Printed in Huss's type 5:109G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e¹⁰: 42 leaves, leaf e10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 18.9 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: e10 (blank).
Title from incipit, leaf a1r: Au nom de nostre seigneur ih[es]ucrist cy conmence listoire du vaillant chevalier pierres filz du conte de provence et de la belle maguelonne fille du roi de naples ordonne en cestuy langage a lonneur de dieu de la vierge marie [et] de mo[n] seigneur fai[n]ct pierre de maguelonne du quel lesditz pierre et maguelonne ont este premiers fo[n]dateurs Et fut mis en cestui la[n]gage lan mil CCCC liii eu la maniere qui sensuit.
Imprint from ISTC.
GW dates as about 1480.
Printed in Huss's type 5:109G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e¹⁰: 42 leaves, leaf e10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 18.9 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: e10 (blank).
Binding
Modern full red goatskin, by Duru, 1845.
Variant title
Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Initials and capitals colored in a pale wash. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Robert Lang, his sale, Evans, 17 Nov. 1828, lot 1953; Richard Heber (1773-1833), his sale, Sotheby's, part IX, 11 April 1836, lot 2503 to Crozet for £26.0.0; Victor Masséna Essling (1799-1863), duc de Rivoli, prince d'Antibes; his sales, [1836, 1839, and 1847,] sold for fr. 880; Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel, no. 2325 (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Paris, 9 May 1867, lot 2325 for fr. 2700; Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Paris, part I, 6 June 1878, lot 611 for fr. 2950; James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, armorial bookplate (front pastedown), Bibliotheca Lindesiana sale, Sotheby's, part I, 13 Jun 1887, lot 1634; Horace Landau (1824-1903), monogram booklabel, no. 4047 (front pastedown); Martin Bodmer (1899-1971); H.P. Kraus, cat. 131 (1971), no. 26; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Kraus as the gift of the Fellows, with the special assistance of Miss Alice Tully, Jan. 1972.
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