Accession number:
PML 199351.12
Published:
[Paris] : Vencunt in officina Ioannis Gormontij ... [Jean de Gourmont], [1522]
Description:
68 unnumbered leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial. NNPM
Notes:
Author's dedicatory epistle dated 29 juin 1522.
Signatures: A-S⁴: 68 leaves
Woodcut armorials on title-page, woodcut initials.
Library's copy forms part of a Sammelband of 20 works (PML 199351.1-20) gathered and bound by Benoît Le Court (died ca 1559), mostly printed in Paris, late 1490s to 1520s, and containing works of poetry, obituaries and invective. NNPM
Variant Title:
Sylvae, Arion, Gornais, Barbaromachia
Inscriptions/Markings:
Signatures of Ludovicus de Sansone[?] and Le Court ("Benedictus S. Curtius") on title-page, extensive manuscript annotations on first few leaves (by Ludovicus). NNPM
Provenance:
Benoît Le Court (died ca 1559), his note of purchase "Emptus xxi s vi d" on inside front cover (part of his library sold by auction in 1588); Pierre Bergé & associés & Dominique Courvoisier with Dominique Laucournet, sale, Paris, 31 May 2005, lot 76. acquisition: Purchased in 2020 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris; purchased by: T. Kimball Brooker, his sale: Sotheby's (London), Bibliotheca Brookeriana V, 10 Dec. 2024, lot 1140. NNPM
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