Accession number
PML 20980
Creator
Gréban, Simon, -approximately 1473.
Published
[Paris] : pour Arnoul & Charles les angeliers freres, dimprimer le .xxviie. iour de May Lan Mil cinq cens .xli. [28 May 1541]
Credit line
Purchased in 1919.
Notes
Title from title page, Part I, leaf *1r.
At bottom of title page: On les vend en la grand Salle du Palais, par Arnoul et Charles les Angeliers freres tenans leurs bouticques au premier et deuxiesme pilliers deuant la chappelle de messeigneurs les Presidens
Colophon, Part III, leaf HH4v: Fin du mistere de Lapocalipse sainct Jehan euangeliste Nouuellement redige par personnages, auec les miracles fais en lisle de Pathmos, le tout histoire selon les visions, Et fu acheue ledit liure dimprimer le .xxviie. iour de May Lan Mil cinq cens .xli. pour Arnoul & Charles les angeliers freres. [printer's mark]
In three parts.
Signatures: I) *⁴ a-z aa-mm⁶; II) [pi]² A-X Aa-Hh⁶ Ii⁸; III) AA-GG⁶ HH⁴.
Mystère des Actes des Apôtres ascribed to Simon and Arnoul Greban.
Part III, Apocalypse of St. John, title page: Lapocalypse Sainct Jehan zebedee, ou sont comprinses les visions et reuelations que icelluy sainct Jehan eut en lysle de Pathmos, le tout ordonne par figures conuenables selon le texte de la saincte escripture. Ensemble les cruaultez de Domicien Cesar. Avec priuilege. M.D.xli.
Dedication by Louis Choquet on leaf AA1v.
Woodcut borders on title pages to three parts.
Apocalypse with woodcuts derived from Durer and Cranach designs.
Printer's marks on leaves mm6v, Ii8r, and HH4v.
Leaf a1r with small woodcut of Pentecost signed with the Lorraine cross (frequently ascribed to Geoffrey Tory) and the initials G.M. for Guillaume Merlin.
Title page border dated 1537, leaf *1r.
Woodcut of Asumption of the Virgin on leaves *1v and [pi]2v, unsigned.
Apocalypse woodcut on leaf FF6r signed PR.
At bottom of title page: On les vend en la grand Salle du Palais, par Arnoul et Charles les Angeliers freres tenans leurs bouticques au premier et deuxiesme pilliers deuant la chappelle de messeigneurs les Presidens
Colophon, Part III, leaf HH4v: Fin du mistere de Lapocalipse sainct Jehan euangeliste Nouuellement redige par personnages, auec les miracles fais en lisle de Pathmos, le tout histoire selon les visions, Et fu acheue ledit liure dimprimer le .xxviie. iour de May Lan Mil cinq cens .xli. pour Arnoul & Charles les angeliers freres. [printer's mark]
In three parts.
Signatures: I) *⁴ a-z aa-mm⁶; II) [pi]² A-X Aa-Hh⁶ Ii⁸; III) AA-GG⁶ HH⁴.
Mystère des Actes des Apôtres ascribed to Simon and Arnoul Greban.
Part III, Apocalypse of St. John, title page: Lapocalypse Sainct Jehan zebedee, ou sont comprinses les visions et reuelations que icelluy sainct Jehan eut en lysle de Pathmos, le tout ordonne par figures conuenables selon le texte de la saincte escripture. Ensemble les cruaultez de Domicien Cesar. Avec priuilege. M.D.xli.
Dedication by Louis Choquet on leaf AA1v.
Woodcut borders on title pages to three parts.
Apocalypse with woodcuts derived from Durer and Cranach designs.
Printer's marks on leaves mm6v, Ii8r, and HH4v.
Leaf a1r with small woodcut of Pentecost signed with the Lorraine cross (frequently ascribed to Geoffrey Tory) and the initials G.M. for Guillaume Merlin.
Title page border dated 1537, leaf *1r.
Woodcut of Asumption of the Virgin on leaves *1v and [pi]2v, unsigned.
Apocalypse woodcut on leaf FF6r signed PR.
Description
[4], i- ccxx; [2], i-clxxv, [1]; [1], ii-xlvi leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm. (folio)
Provenance
Paul Girardot de Prefond, label with name and cut-out armorial (front pastedown); George Watson Taylor (d. 1841); his sale, Evans, 14 April 1823, lot 613 for £16--; William Beckford (1760-1844), his library descended to his daughter Susan and son-in-law Alexander Douglas, 10th Duke of Hamilton; Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale, Sotheby's, part 1, 30 June 1882, lot 2730 to Ellis for £26.10.0; Bernard Quaritch, Hamilton/Beckford sale bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Quaritch, 1919.
Binding
18th-century French red morocco by Derome le jeune, with marble paper pastedowns and fly leaves; gilt edges.
Classification
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