Accession number
PML 79241
Published
Nouvellement imprimez a Paris : par Michel le Noir, [after November 1508]
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes
Title from half-title page, with woodcut.
Imprint from colophon, leaf L4r: Cy finissent les ditz moraulx des philosophes avec les conquestes et vaillances de alexandre le grant nouvellement imprimez a paris par Michel le noir Libraire iure. Demourant en la rue sainct jacques a la rose blanche.
Le Noir's printer's device, leaf L4v. Dated from the state of the device (CIBN).
Signatures: A⁴ B⁸ C⁴ D⁸ E-F⁴ G⁸ H-I⁴ K⁸ L⁴: 60 leaves.
Paper format: Chancer quarto
Translated by Guillaume de Tignonville.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.3 x 12 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf L4r: Cy finissent les ditz moraulx des philosophes avec les conquestes et vaillances de alexandre le grant nouvellement imprimez a paris par Michel le noir Libraire iure. Demourant en la rue sainct jacques a la rose blanche.
Le Noir's printer's device, leaf L4v. Dated from the state of the device (CIBN).
Signatures: A⁴ B⁸ C⁴ D⁸ E-F⁴ G⁸ H-I⁴ K⁸ L⁴: 60 leaves.
Paper format: Chancer quarto
Translated by Guillaume de Tignonville.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.3 x 12 cm.
Description
[60] leaves ; 18.5 cm (4to)
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 11 (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Liber 126, purchased from Arthur Rau (Paris), June 1949; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (18.5 x 12 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duru, 1854. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
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