Accession number
PML 199160
Creator
Pulci, Luigi, 1432-1484.
Published
Nouvellement imprimee a Paris : par Alain Lotrian imprimeur et libraire demourant en la rue neufue nostre Dame a lenseigne de lescu de France, [approximately 1536]
Credit line
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Sixteenth-Century Fund, 2024.
Notes
Anonymous translation and adaptation of "Morgante maggiore" by Luigi Pulci; translation dated 1517.
Title printed in black and red.
Dated from reuse of woodcuts, originally used in Lotrain and Janot's [1533] edition.
Signatures: ā a-z [et] A-O⁴
Title to the added chapter 1: "Cy commence lhistoire de Roland et Morgant le géant et de plusieurs autres chevaliers et pers. de France."
Title printed in black and red.
Dated from reuse of woodcuts, originally used in Lotrain and Janot's [1533] edition.
Signatures: ā a-z [et] A-O⁴
Title to the added chapter 1: "Cy commence lhistoire de Roland et Morgant le géant et de plusieurs autres chevaliers et pers. de France."
Description
[162] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 18.5 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Title written on front cover: Morgant le Geant.
Provenance
Sixteenth-century French ownership inscription: “Ce presendte libre appartin a moy Jhan Jaques [??] demourant a anvers[??] 1548. 2 Julliett” with an abraded drawing and inscription below (inside rear cover); Librairie Thomas-Scheler (March 1966); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Sokol Books on the T. Kimball Brooker Sixteenth-century Fund, April 2024.
Binding
Mid-16th century (in or before July 1548) vellum envelope wrapper, with fore-edge flap extension and single thong tie (renewed); sewn on 3 laced supports (renewed). Medieval manuscript waste as spine reinforcement, visible at end.
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