Accession number
PML 15445
Creator
Commynes, Philippe de, approximately 1447-1511.
Published
[Paris] : On les vend au Palais a Paris par Galiot du Pre ..., 1552.
Credit line
Pierpont Morgan,
Description
clxix, [5] leaves ; 35 cm (F⁰)
Notes
Colophon: Imprime a Paris par Rene Avril, pour Galiot du Pre, et Iean de Roigny ...
Printer's device on last p.
Signatures: a⁶ a-z⁶ A-F⁶.
Printer's device on last p.
Signatures: a⁶ a-z⁶ A-F⁶.
Binding
16th-century French brown calf with red, brown and black leather onlays, gold tooled with apparently Cupid's Bow Binder's tools (cf. Nixon) used in forming lozenge-shaped centre piece and repeating segments along the sides of a rectangular panel; with mot
Provenance
Symon (?, inscription); Librarie Damascene Morgand, Bulletin Mensuel, no. 27 (April 1890), no. 17597 for Fr. 1000; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Morgand/Rahir, 1907.
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