Accession number
PML 79747.2
Object title
Les stilles et usages de proceder en la court laye es pays Daniou et du Maine.
Published
[Angers] : [Johannes de La Tour (de Turre)], [approximately1493-1495].
Description
[1], i-Liiii, [1] ; 13.5 cm. (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1988.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC. De la Tour's printer's mark, leaf a1v.
GW assigns to Johannes de Turre and Johannes Morelli, [about 1493].
Printed in La Tour's types 2:100G and 3:65G.
Signatures: a-g⁸: 56 leaves, leaf g8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13 x 9 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and g8 (blank).
Imprint from ISTC. De la Tour's printer's mark, leaf a1v.
GW assigns to Johannes de Turre and Johannes Morelli, [about 1493].
Printed in La Tour's types 2:100G and 3:65G.
Signatures: a-g⁸: 56 leaves, leaf g8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13 x 9 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and g8 (blank).
Binding
Modern full brown calf over paper boards (13.5 x 9.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Variant title
Title from ISTC: Styles et usages de procéder en la cour laie d'Anjou et du Maine
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Minimal 15th/16th-century notations, leaves d1r (dated 1539) and g4v.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription, in rubricator's red: "J [??] Le x amore" (leaf a1r of Coutumes) and "Scelera scriptori de[us] anser cu[m] ... [???]" (leaf o9v of Coutumes); C. Chrestien, signature, 15th/16th century (leaf a1r of Coutumes); unidentified bookseller's notes, signed FW (rear pastedown); Philip Robinson (of William H. Robinson, booksellers); his sale, Sotheby's London, part I, 23 June 1988, lot 10; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Sotheby's on the Harper Fund, June 1988.
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