Accession number:
PML 127962.1
Published:
[Poitiers] : [Jean Bouyer and Guillaume Bouchet], [approximately 1500]
Description:
[8] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 1997.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bouyer's types 6:90G and 7:63/64G.
Signatures: A⁸: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Initial spaces, with guide letters. 1 column. Blind bearer type (Bouyer's initial set c), leaf A8v.
Commentary by Jodocus Badius Ascensius.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.5 x 13.8 cm.
Binding:
Modern laced limp parchment (19.5 x 14.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Deborah Evetts. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. Previous (19th/20th-century, Spanish?) stiff vellum binding preserved in box.
Variant Title:
De moribus puerorum carmen juvenile
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: 16th/17th-century marginal notations throughout, in 2-3 southern French/Spanish hands (perhaps 1 hand found in all 4 parts of Sammelband). Pen trials, including "lla nueva," "Al hic" and "pues quiess" (leaf A8v).
Provenance:
Nicholaus Legost, inscription, 16th century (leaf C6v of Bucolica); Dorothy Sloan (Austin, TX), auction 4 (1997), lot 10; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Sloan (via E.K. Schreiber) on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, April 1997.
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