Accession number
PML 24939.2
Object title
Cy commance les paraboles salomon lequel fut filz David rey de Iherusalem.
Uniform title
Bible. Song of Solomon. French
Published
[Lyon] : [Martin Huss], [not before 1481]
Description
[88] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l7r: Cy finist le livre de lescleisastique en francoys et samblablement le spaultier les paraboles salomon le livre de sapience et le livre de ecclesiastes lesquelx ont este nouvellement translate sus la bible au plus pres du latin lan mil CCCC quatre vingz et ung.
Printed in Huss's type 5:109G (but measures 120).
Signatures: a-l⁸: 88 leaves, leaf l8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
2 columns of 28-30 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
5 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.1 x 18.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l7r: Cy finist le livre de lescleisastique en francoys et samblablement le spaultier les paraboles salomon le livre de sapience et le livre de ecclesiastes lesquelx ont este nouvellement translate sus la bible au plus pres du latin lan mil CCCC quatre vingz et ung.
Printed in Huss's type 5:109G (but measures 120).
Signatures: a-l⁸: 88 leaves, leaf l8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
2 columns of 28-30 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
5 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.1 x 18.5 cm.
Binding
Contemporary quarter sheep over beech wood boards (28 x 19 cm), sewn on 3 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
Paraboles Salomon
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript contents list, 18th century (front endleaf 1 verso); illegible French inscription (rear endleaf 2 verso).
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Seymour de Ricci, Oct. 1927.
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