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Le rommant de la rose.

Accession number
PML 606
Creator
Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.
Object title

Le rommant de la rose.

Published

[Lyon] : [Guillaume Le Roy], [approximately 1487]

Description

[150] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28.5 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Begun by Guillaume de Lorris, and finished by Jean de Meung.
Title from title page, leaf a1r: Le Rommant De La Rose.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Le Roy's type 5*:111G.
Signatures: a-s⁸ t⁶: 150 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Illustrated with 92 woodcuts, with 7 blocks repeated.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (28.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks on leaf a2r only; red ruling throughout. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front endleaf 4 verso and loose leaf laid in at pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 23 April 1890, lot 1592; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 323, 11/10/1900 and price code: wom/-/- (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department