Accession number
PML 199056
Creator
Bouchet, Jean, 1476-approximately 1558.
Published
Et a limprimerie a la Celle, et deuant les Cordeliers : par Iacques Bouchet imprimeur audict Poictiers, Le vingt septiesme iour de Nouembre Lan mil cinq cens trente vng [27 November 1531]
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Bark, 2023.
Notes
Woodcut armorial vignette (arms of Francis I of France) on t.p.
Date of publication from colophon at foot of leaf R10v. Colophon reads: Cy finissent les Epitaphes Genealogies et effigies des Roys Francoys Imprimez nouuellement a Poictiers par Iacques Bouchet imprimeur le vingt septiesme iour de nouembre /lan mil cinq cens trente vng.
Printed chiefly in bastard type.
Portrait of each of the 56 kings within a woodcut frame within text; full page woodcut of the fall of Troy on leaf A6v.
The Paris addresses in imprint on t.p. are those of Jean and Enguilbert de Marnef.
Signatures: [cross]⁸ A-Q⁸ R¹⁰.
Woodcut initials, marginal notes.
Date of publication from colophon at foot of leaf R10v. Colophon reads: Cy finissent les Epitaphes Genealogies et effigies des Roys Francoys Imprimez nouuellement a Poictiers par Iacques Bouchet imprimeur le vingt septiesme iour de nouembre /lan mil cinq cens trente vng.
Printed chiefly in bastard type.
Portrait of each of the 56 kings within a woodcut frame within text; full page woodcut of the fall of Troy on leaf A6v.
The Paris addresses in imprint on t.p. are those of Jean and Enguilbert de Marnef.
Signatures: [cross]⁸ A-Q⁸ R¹⁰.
Woodcut initials, marginal notes.
Description
[16], cxxx leaves : illustrations (portraits) ; 19 cm (4to)
Provenance
Jean Ramey, signature (title page), Ramey family, through inheritance to France de Ramey de Sugny Bark and Dennis Bark, donated to: Morgan Library & Museum, Nov. 2023.
Binding
16th-century French blind-rolled calf over paper boards (19.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 4 supports.
Classification
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