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Meliadus De leonnoys. Du present volume sont contenus les nobles faictz darmes du vaillant roy Meliadus de Leonnoys : Ensemble plusieurs autres nobles proceses de Chevalerie, faictes tant par le roy Artus, Palamedes, le Morhoult dirlande, le bon chevalier sa[n]s paour, Galehault le brun, Segurades, Galaad, que autres bo[n]s Chevaliers estās au temps dudit roy Meliadus Histoire singuliere et recreatiue, nouuellement imprimee. / [Translated from the Latin of Rusticien de Pise.].

Accession number
PML 20969
Published
Paris : Galliot du Pre, 30 Nov., 1528.
Notes
1st ed., 1st issue.
Cf. Brunet III, 1588, where the privilege is dated 10 Avril 1526 and in this ed. dated 5 Mars 1526.
Collation: 6 leaves, 195 numbered leaves = title in red and black in woodcut border *1r; privilege headed by French arms, *1v; *2, prologue, haded by woodcut of author reading, with border of many pieces; table, *iii-vir, on verso full page cut of knight; text, 199 leaves. First page of text has woodcut border, woodcut capitals throughout. Printer's mark on last page.
Original version may have been written by Hélie de Boron ca. 1240.
Description
6 leaves, 195 numbered leaves : ill. (woodcuts).
Provenance
From the Hamilton Palace collection (bought by Quaritch, Dec., 1882).
Binding
Blue-brown morocco by Padeloup.
Classification
Department