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Les vigilles de la mort du roi Charles septiesme a neuf pseaulmes et neuf lecons.

Accession number
PML 563
Creator
Martial, d'Auvergne, -1508.
Published
Imprime a Paris : par Robert Bouchier [for] Guillaume Eustace, [approximately 1505]
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, printed in red and black, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf q4r: Imprime a paris Par Robert bouchier Imprimeur Demourant en la rue sainct Jacques en lenseigne de lescu au Soleil.
Guillaume Eustace's device and statement, leaf q4v: [Device] Den achater chascun / son devoir face / Dedens le pallays / Les vent Guillanme [sic] eustace.
Signatures: a-c⁶ d⁸ e-o⁶ p-q⁴: 94 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.9 x 18 cm.
Description
[94] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25.5 cm (fol)
Provenance
Pierre-Adolphe du Cambout (1801-1873), marquis de Coislin, armorial binding; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 192, 8/5/96 and price code: lm/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled black morocco semée with fleur-de-lis over paper boards (25.5 x 19 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Niédreé, 1846, with red morocco doublures with arms of the marquis de Coislin. Marbled paper endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Classification
Department