Accession number
PML 590
Published
[Paris] : [Wolfgang Hopyl?] Pro Anthonio Verard, [approximately 1503]
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Place and date of publication and printer's name from STC; publisher's name from colophon, leaf X8r.
Dated as about 1506 in Bennett catalogue.
Almanac for the years 1503-1520.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-x⁸: 170 leaves, leaves a1-2 blank.
Part of the text in English.
Includes the Virtues battling Vices border cuts first designed for Pigouchet and found in Gringore's "Chasteau de Labour," printed for Simon Vostre.
Leaf i7r only with Vérard's larger border cuts from the "Grandes Heures."
PML copy printed on vellum.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: i8 and r7.
Dated as about 1506 in Bennett catalogue.
Almanac for the years 1503-1520.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-x⁸: 170 leaves, leaves a1-2 blank.
Part of the text in English.
Includes the Virtues battling Vices border cuts first designed for Pigouchet and found in Gringore's "Chasteau de Labour," printed for Simon Vostre.
Leaf i7r only with Vérard's larger border cuts from the "Grandes Heures."
PML copy printed on vellum.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: i8 and r7.
Description
[170] leaves : illustrations ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary illumination to primary text pages and initials. Two manuscript prayers: 1) "Ave domina sancta maria mater dei Regina Celi porta paradisi [abraded] domina mundi ..." and 2) "Ave maria gratia plena dominus tecum ..." (rear vellum endleaf 1 verso). Multiple early inscriptions (front vellum original endleaf and blanks), including: an incomplete Sator Square (Latin acrostic), "Nusquam tuta fides -- 1549," and "Da tua dum tua sunt, post mortem tunc tua non sunt"; inscripton written in reverse: "As I dissarve as I dissire/ q[uo]d George Nedham" (see British Library, Harley ms 6910, dated 1596; English Garner: Elizabethan Love Poems) and [transcribed as written:] "need lit llas nerel/ q[uo]d nymooai rebrab" ("deen tit sall leren/ quod Iaoomyn Barber," perhaps the Dutch proverb 'de tijd zal het leren' (time shall tell)); and a 17th/18th-century inscription: "This Book was Brought from West Court [Kent?] itt is A Papist Book as I suppose and not To be made Use of As is one or 2 more which I cannot find."
Provenance
Anne Morton, inscription: "Mystres an morto[n] sarvant to [the] lady f wyllya[m]s (perhaps Fitzwilliams?)" (front vellum original endleaf); Daniel Rock (1799-1871), bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), canon of Southwark and scholar of the Sarum rite; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding) and purchase notes: No. 17, 6/5/96 and price code: wom/-/- +com (front endleaf 4 recto), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Binding
20th-century quarter brown morocco with decorative paper sides over paper boards (24 x 17.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, with original vellum endleaves; plain endbands.
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