Accession number
PML 195864
Published
Paris : Jean Postel for Guillaume Merlin, 1572
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2013.
Notes
Collation: A-P⁸; [cross]⁴; A-K⁸; A-B⁸.
Metalcuts of the Sibyls and the Virtues Fighting the Vices by the Master of Anne de Bretagne (also known as Master of the Unicorn Hunt, active approximately 1480-1510), identified possibly as Jean d'Ypres (died 1508). Cross woodcut on leaf A1v signed "G M" (Guillaume Merlin?) and January, May, and December calendar scenes signed with a cross of Lorraine, and St. John on Patmos on leaf B6v signed "I H" with a cross of Lorraine.
July scene in calendar repeated for August.
Not in Bohatta or Pettegree, French Books.
Metalcuts of the Sibyls and the Virtues Fighting the Vices by the Master of Anne de Bretagne (also known as Master of the Unicorn Hunt, active approximately 1480-1510), identified possibly as Jean d'Ypres (died 1508). Cross woodcut on leaf A1v signed "G M" (Guillaume Merlin?) and January, May, and December calendar scenes signed with a cross of Lorraine, and St. John on Patmos on leaf B6v signed "I H" with a cross of Lorraine.
July scene in calendar repeated for August.
Not in Bohatta or Pettegree, French Books.
Description
[14], cxx, [4], lxxx, [16] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 17 cm
Provenance
Edouard Fitz-James (1776-1838), armorial binding; Robert de Billy (1869-1953), bookplate (front pastedown); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Feb. 2013.
Binding
Nineteenth-century dark blue crushed morocco by Bauzonnet-Trautz, with arms of Fitz-James on top and bottom boards.
Classification
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