Accession number
PML 17598
Published
[Paris] : Imprime par gillet couteau [for Francois Regnault], [approximately 1504-1510]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf r3v): Cy finist cestuy present livre / Intitule des deux testamens / Le regard qui monstre que vivre / Devoit iesus puis par tormens / Cruelz horribles et vehemens / Endurant comme ung aigneau / Mourroit en croix par ferremens / Imprime par gillet couteau. [woodcut device of Francois Regnault] Ilz se vendent a Paris en la rue sainct iaques a lenseigne sainct claude.
Dated by USTC as [1504]. Paris, BnF dates as [1500-1510]. The woodcut initial L and author portrait on leaf a1r-v are copied from those used by Verard ca. 1504.
Signatures: a-q⁶ r⁴: 100 leaves, leaf r4 blank.
This edition is presumably a page-for-page reprint of Antoine Verard's edition, ca. 1504 (see USTC 30257).
Woodcut illustrations are copied from the Biblia pauperum.
Neither this edition nor Verard's are cited in Schreiber, Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, tome IV.
PML copy with leaf a1 remargined, perhaps from another copy.
Imprint from colophon (leaf r3v): Cy finist cestuy present livre / Intitule des deux testamens / Le regard qui monstre que vivre / Devoit iesus puis par tormens / Cruelz horribles et vehemens / Endurant comme ung aigneau / Mourroit en croix par ferremens / Imprime par gillet couteau. [woodcut device of Francois Regnault] Ilz se vendent a Paris en la rue sainct iaques a lenseigne sainct claude.
Dated by USTC as [1504]. Paris, BnF dates as [1500-1510]. The woodcut initial L and author portrait on leaf a1r-v are copied from those used by Verard ca. 1504.
Signatures: a-q⁶ r⁴: 100 leaves, leaf r4 blank.
This edition is presumably a page-for-page reprint of Antoine Verard's edition, ca. 1504 (see USTC 30257).
Woodcut illustrations are copied from the Biblia pauperum.
Neither this edition nor Verard's are cited in Schreiber, Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, tome IV.
PML copy with leaf a1 remargined, perhaps from another copy.
Description
[100] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 26 cm. (folio)
Provenance
Unidentified English sale catalogue description, ca. 1830(?) (front fly leaf); Librairie Tross, catalogue no. 1 (1868), lot 44; John S. Pakington, Lord Hampton (1799-1880), armorial bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's, 14 Feb. 1881; Brayton Ives (1840-1914), monogram booklabel, no. 329, his sale, New York, 5 March 1891; Clarence S. Bement (1843-1923), armorial bookplate; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1911.
Binding
20th-century 1/4 brown morocco with brown cloth sides, over paper boards, by Charlotte Ullman, 1963.
Classification
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