Accession number
PML 75113-14
Creator
Valerius Maximus.
Object title
Facta et dicta memorabilia.
Published
[Southern Netherlands] : [Printer of Flavius Josephus (Hain 9449)], [between 1476 and 1477]
Description
[512] leaves ; 39 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows, 1976.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [c]/1r: Cy commence le liure de Valerius Maximus/ translate de latin en francois/ par religieuse p[er]sonne maistre Simon de Hesdin maistre en theologie/ et fr[atr]e de saint Iehan de Ihr[usa]l[e]m.
Printed in the type 1:123G, attributed to the Printer of Flavius Josephus.
On the possible location of this press, see G. Colin in Brussels exhib.1973, cat. pp.182 ff.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸; 3-24¹⁰ 25-27⁸; 28⁸ 29⁶; 30-44¹⁰ 45⁸; 46-52¹⁰ 53⁸]: 512 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Translation and commentary by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 37.5 x 28 cm.
Incipit, leaf [c]/1r: Cy commence le liure de Valerius Maximus/ translate de latin en francois/ par religieuse p[er]sonne maistre Simon de Hesdin maistre en theologie/ et fr[atr]e de saint Iehan de Ihr[usa]l[e]m.
Printed in the type 1:123G, attributed to the Printer of Flavius Josephus.
On the possible location of this press, see G. Colin in Brussels exhib.1973, cat. pp.182 ff.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸; 3-24¹⁰ 25-27⁸; 28⁸ 29⁶; 30-44¹⁰ 45⁸; 46-52¹⁰ 53⁸]: 512 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Translation and commentary by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 37.5 x 28 cm.
Binding
17th-century English gilt-tooled blue morocco over paper boards (39/38.5 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary illuminated presentation scenes and initials (vol. I, leaf [3]/1r and vol. II, leaf [30]/1r), rubricated initials in red/blue with red penwork decoration, with minor initials in red, red headlines, roman numeral foliation, capital strokes, and paragraph marks. Annotations: Each chapter includes an extract of the original Latin text in the margin in a very clear bookhand. Contemporary alpha-numeric quire signatures (many trimmed), with later alpha-numeric signatures.
Provenance
Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park, bookplate and monogram booklabel (front pastedowns), purchased from Payne & Foss, 1829, Syston Park Library sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 2000 (collation note, vol. I, rear endleaf 2 recto); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedowns), entire library purchased in August 1896 by: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), sold off the Morris duplicates, Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1898, lot 1181; Edmée Maus (1905-1971), no. 417, monogram booklabel (vol. I, front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographic notes, Aug. 1967 (vols. I and II, rear endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Paul Jammes (Paris) as a gift of the Fellows, Oct. 1976.
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