Cest la vie de n[ost]re benoit sauueur ihesuscrist.

Accession number:

PML 63680

Published:

[Lyon] : [Guillaume Le Roy for Barthélemy Buyer], [approximately 1479]

Description:

[64] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows, with the special assistance of Mrs. Frederick B. Adams, Roland L. Redmond, Mrs. James H. Ripley, Landon K. Thorne, Jr., and Julia P. Wightman, 1973.

Notes:

Title from incipit, leaf a1r: Cy comme[n]ce une moult belle et moult notable devote matiere qui est moult proffitable a toute creature humayne. Cest la vie de n[ost]re benoit sauueur ihesuscrist ordonnee en brief langayge oa parolles ... Et fut translatee a paris de latin en fra[n]cois a la req[ue]ste de treshault [et] puissant prince iehan duc de berry duc dauvergne conte de poytou [et] de tampes la[n] de grace mil ccc lxxx.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Le Roy's type 1***:115G (leaded to 126, and with different z than in TW).
Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁶ e-g⁸ h¹⁰: 64 leaves, leaf h10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
2 columns, 26 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
Blind bearer type visible, leaf h9.
As stated in the incipit, the work was translated for Jean, duc du Berry in 1380.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy with leaf h10 (blank) bound first.

Binding:

Modern French blind-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by G. Cretté (succ. de Marius Michel). Plain vellum doublures with brown silk endleaves and plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Cest la vie de nostre benoit sauveur ihsuscrist

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, line fillers, and triple-loops added to descenders of text in bottom line, by Nicolas Bornot of Beauclaire(?), signed at colophon: "Ce presant livre est a[??]fine Nicolas bornot preste de beaulcaire." Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary Roman numeral foliation.

Provenance:

Previsouly part of an unidentified Sammelband: contemporary manuscript foliation starting at Cxvii; Edmée Maus (1905-1971), no. 419, monogram booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso) and bibliographic notes, 1967 (rear endleaf 3 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Engelberts-Jammes as the gift of the Fellows, with the special assistance of Mrs. Frederick B. Adams, Roland L. Redmond, Mrs. James H. Ripley, Landon K. Thorne, Jr., and Julia P. Wightman, March 1973.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books