Accession number
PML 522
Creator
Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471.
Object title
Ortulus rosarum de valle lacrymarum.
Published
[Paris] : [Etienne Jehannot, for] Claude Jaumar, [about 1496]
Description
[24] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 12.5 cm. (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title and publisher's name from from title page, leaf [a]1r.
Explicit, leaf c8r: Ortulus Rosarum de valle lachrimarum. Finit feliciter.
Printed in Jehannot's types 1:120G and 2:65G.
Signatures: [a]-c⁸: 24 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
8 woodcuts depiciting Birth of Christ (7 cuts) and Dance of Death/Pope (1 cut).
There appear to be at least three separable editions by Jehannot (sometimes attributed to Le Dru) for Jaumar. In the explicit, f.24, they are distinguished as follows: lachri//marum: Finit feliciter. (Pell 11092e-f); lacri//marum: Finit feliciter. (Pell 11086, 11091, 11092b-d, 11092g); lachrima-//rum. Finit feliciter. (Pell 11086b). Each has the same series of eight woodcuts (plus one repeated), seven of which are found in Jehannot's Roman Hours of 21 Aug. 1497 (CIBN ad T-223).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 12 x 8.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [a]1r.
Explicit, leaf c8r: Ortulus Rosarum de valle lachrimarum. Finit feliciter.
Printed in Jehannot's types 1:120G and 2:65G.
Signatures: [a]-c⁸: 24 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
8 woodcuts depiciting Birth of Christ (7 cuts) and Dance of Death/Pope (1 cut).
There appear to be at least three separable editions by Jehannot (sometimes attributed to Le Dru) for Jaumar. In the explicit, f.24, they are distinguished as follows: lachri//marum: Finit feliciter. (Pell 11092e-f); lacri//marum: Finit feliciter. (Pell 11086, 11091, 11092b-d, 11092g); lachrima-//rum. Finit feliciter. (Pell 11086b). Each has the same series of eight woodcuts (plus one repeated), seven of which are found in Jehannot's Roman Hours of 21 Aug. 1497 (CIBN ad T-223).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 12 x 8.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [a]1r.
Binding
Modern full brown goatskin over paper boards (12.5 x 9 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Title in Checklist: Hortulus rosarum de valle lacrimarum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 105a, 30/1/1900 (laid-in, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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