Accession number
PML 41003
Creator
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431.
Published
Nouvellement imprime a Paris, par Philippe le Noir, Lan mil cinq cens vingt et deux le dernier jour de nouembre [30 November 1522]
Credit line
Purchased in 1949.
Notes
Title from half-title page, with Le Noir's device, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf g6v: Cy finissent les cent hystoires de troye nouuellement imprimees a Paris par Philippe le noir libraire et relieur iure en Luniuersite de Paris, Lan mil cinq cens vingt et deux le dernier jour de nouembre.
Signatures: a-e⁸, f-g⁶.
100 woodcuts.
Imprint from colophon, leaf g6v: Cy finissent les cent hystoires de troye nouuellement imprimees a Paris par Philippe le noir libraire et relieur iure en Luniuersite de Paris, Lan mil cinq cens vingt et deux le dernier jour de nouembre.
Signatures: a-e⁸, f-g⁶.
100 woodcuts.
Description
52 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (4to)
Provenance
Hernando Colón (1488-1539), Biblioteca Colombina, booklabel (front pastedown); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 89 (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Gillet); Charles Gillet (1879-1972), gilt monogram stamp (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Arthur Rau, Aug. 1949.
Binding
19th-century blind-tooled brown morocco, with gilt-tooled title; gilt and gauffered edges.
Classification
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