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Los doze trabajos de Ercules copilados por don E[n]rriq[ue] de Villena.

Accession number
PML 670.1-2
Creator
Villena, Henrique de.
Object title

Los doze trabajos de Ercules copilados por don E[n]rriq[ue] de Villena.

Published

Burgos : por Juan de Burgos, ocho dias del mes de agosto ... mill y cccc y noventa y nueve años [8 August 1499].

Description

[1], Folio II- XXIX, [1, 24] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from xylographic half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf e5v: Esta obra fue i[m]presa enla muy noble: [y] mas leal cibdad de burgos: Acabose jueues a ocho dias d[e]l mes de agosto: por Juan de burgos emprentador. Año del señor: de mill y cccc. y nouenta y nueue años.
Second colophon, leaf D4r: Esta obra fue i[m]presa e[n]la muy noble: [y] mas leal cibdad de burgos: Acabose jueues a ocho dias d[e]l mes de agosto. por Juan de burgos emprentador. Año del señor: de mill y .cccc. y nouenta y nueue años.
Printed in De Burgos's types 2:160G and 3:105G.
Signatures: part I) a-e⁶: 30 leaves; part II) A⁸ B-C⁶ D⁴: 24 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Incipit and initial, leaf a2r, printed in red.
12 woodcuts in Hercules.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 22 cm.
PML copy catalogued as two separate incunabula but most bibliographies identify as a single work.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (31 x 22 cm), sewn on 5 supports, perhaps by Thouvenin; repaired. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Los doze trabajos de Hércules
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Jean-Jacques de Bure (1765-1853), collation inscription, 9 March 1833 and shelfmarks(?): 808 (crossed out) 1101 (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Paris, 1 Dec. 1853, lot 948 (in binding by Thouvenin); Edwin Tross (1822-1875), stamp (rear endleaf 4 recto); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Spanish Catalogue (Feb. 1895), no. 1474; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: so/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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Department