Accession number
PML 23625
Creator
Bourdigne, Jehan de, d. 1547.
Published
Paris : Antoine Courteau [for Galliet du Pré ?], Jan. 1529.
Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Notes
... Renaissance woodcut border in 4 blocks. 1.1, large woodcut initial H., 1.19, [symbol] On les vend & Angiers en la boutique de Charles de beingne et Clement alexandre marchans libraires fares de luniuersite dudit lieu. Galliot du Fre. 1[superscript]b Woodcut of the Arms of Paris. below, [symbol] Priuilege pour ce present liure. 20 lines, with 4-line woodcut initial A, for 1.2, [2[superscript]a-3[superscript]b], table, with headline [symbol] La table des Annalles Danien. [4[superscript]a] Notice to the reader - [4[superscript]b] full page woodcut; The author offering his ... I-II[superscript]a, 1.16. Prologue & Divisions of the book. II[superscript]a - CC.VII.[superscript]a, text in III parts. XIII[superscript]a, 17-line woodcut of the destruction of Troy. CC.VII.[superscript]a., 1.38, colophon: [symbol] Fin des Annalles [cronicques des pays Daniou et du Maine, Nouuellement imprimes a Paris par Anthoyne couteau imprimeur. Pour honnestes personnes Charles de Baigne et Clement alexandre marchans libraires Demouraus a Angiers. Et furent acheuees de imprimer au moys de Janiuer. Lan Mil cinq cens. XXIX. CC.VII[superscript]b, blank.
1 full page woodcut, 1 smaller, (f.xiii), border to t.p., & initials throughout.
48 lines to a full page. Size of page 9 x 13 in. = 217 x 321 mm The leaves, not the pages are numbered. f. 50 is misnumbered liii; 150 misnumbered C.lx. and thereafter all leaves misnumbered by an additional 10; f. 162 (C.lxxii) misplaced between 132 & 133.
Collation: - a[superscript]4, A-Z[superscript]6, AA-MM[superscript]6, (E[superscript]2 lettered as Eiii; L[superscript]4 as Miiii; M[superscript 4 blank; FF[superscript]6 misplaced between AA[superscript]6A-EE[superscript]1).
First ed.
Imprint from colophon.
Perfect.
1 full page woodcut, 1 smaller, (f.xiii), border to t.p., & initials throughout.
48 lines to a full page. Size of page 9 x 13 in. = 217 x 321 mm The leaves, not the pages are numbered. f. 50 is misnumbered liii; 150 misnumbered C.lx. and thereafter all leaves misnumbered by an additional 10; f. 162 (C.lxxii) misplaced between 132 & 133.
Collation: - a[superscript]4, A-Z[superscript]6, AA-MM[superscript]6, (E[superscript]2 lettered as Eiii; L[superscript]4 as Miiii; M[superscript 4 blank; FF[superscript]6 misplaced between AA[superscript]6A-EE[superscript]1).
First ed.
Imprint from colophon.
Perfect.
Description
1 v.
Provenance
From the libraries of Stacey Grimaldi, Henry Huth, (sale Nov. 1911), and E. Ph. Goldschmidt; unidentified signature on leaf a1r; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt, May 1926.
Binding
16th-century blind- and gilt-tooled calf.
Classification
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Department