Accession number
PML 463
Creator
Molinet, Jean, 1435-1507, author.
Published
Imprime a Lyon ... : par Maistre Guillaume Balsarin libraire & imprimeur, demoura[n]t en la Rue Merciere pres Sainct Anthoine, lan mil cinq cens & trois [1503]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Prose adaptation in Middle French of Roman de la Rose, a poem in Old French begun by Guillaume de Lorris and finished by Jean de Meun.
Imprint and edition statement from colophon, where date follows place of publication, with edition statement following publisher's address: Cy finist le Romant de la Rose tra[n]slate de ryme en prose Imprime a Lyon lan mil cinq cens & trois par Maistre Guillaume Balsarin libraire & imprimeur, demoura[n]t en la Rue Merciere pres Sainct Anthoine, autrement corrigie ...
Signatures: a⁴ b-g⁶ h⁴ i-n⁶ o-z⁴·⁶ &⁴ 2a-2d⁶·⁴ 2e⁶. Leaf a4 blank, omitted in foliation.
Illustrations: 140 woodcuts, comprising 1 large cut on leaf iiii recto (Bourdillon, page 133) and 139 small cuts (including 72 repeats) in the text, all but 2 copied (by tracing or transfer) from the second Lyons series. See Bourdillon (cited below), pages 84, 138-143.
Many initials, including grotesque and ornamental initials; large calligraphic L (Claudin, v. 3, page 537) on leaf iiii recto. Balsarin's device (Silvestre, L.C. Marques typographiques, no. 235) on leaf cliii verso, with text "Gloire soit a dieu et prouffit es humains" above.
Imprint and edition statement from colophon, where date follows place of publication, with edition statement following publisher's address: Cy finist le Romant de la Rose tra[n]slate de ryme en prose Imprime a Lyon lan mil cinq cens & trois par Maistre Guillaume Balsarin libraire & imprimeur, demoura[n]t en la Rue Merciere pres Sainct Anthoine, autrement corrigie ...
Signatures: a⁴ b-g⁶ h⁴ i-n⁶ o-z⁴·⁶ &⁴ 2a-2d⁶·⁴ 2e⁶. Leaf a4 blank, omitted in foliation.
Illustrations: 140 woodcuts, comprising 1 large cut on leaf iiii recto (Bourdillon, page 133) and 139 small cuts (including 72 repeats) in the text, all but 2 copied (by tracing or transfer) from the second Lyons series. See Bourdillon (cited below), pages 84, 138-143.
Many initials, including grotesque and ornamental initials; large calligraphic L (Claudin, v. 3, page 537) on leaf iiii recto. Balsarin's device (Silvestre, L.C. Marques typographiques, no. 235) on leaf cliii verso, with text "Gloire soit a dieu et prouffit es humains" above.
Description
[4], iiii-cliii leaves : illustrations ; 26 cm (fol.)
Provenance
Theodore Irwin, purchased in 1878; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled brown morocco by Francis Bedford, for Irwin.
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