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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Sensuyt les faitz [et] gestes des nobles co[n]questes de Geoffroy a la gra[n]t de[n]t seigneur de Lusignen [et] siziesme filz de Raymondin co[n]te du dict lieu [et] de Melusine.

Accession number
PML 22532
Published
Imprime a Lyon : Par Olivier Arnoullet, Le .xxv. de Octobre .Mil.CCCCC.xlix. [25 October 1549].
Credit line
Purchased in 1925.
Notes
Title from title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m4r.
Signatures: a-m⁴.
Large woodcut on title and half page cut on verso of last leaf; woodcut initials.
PML copy with last leaf remargined and supplied from another copy.
Description
[48] leaves : illustrations (2 woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Provenance
John Ker (1740-1804), third Duke of Roxburghe, his sale, Evans, 3 June 1812, lot 6131 for £15.0.0 to Triphook; George Spencer Churchill (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, crest on binding, his sale (White Knights Library), Evans, 23 June 1819, lot 1745 (with last leaf in manuscript), for £7.0.0; George Hibbert (1757-1837), his sale, Evans, 16 March 1829, lot 3312 for £1.10.0 to Thorpe (+ £0.4.6 fee, see front endleaf 2 recto); Richard Heber (1773-1833), purchase inscription from Hibbert sale (front endleaf 2 recto), Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Part IX, Sotheby's, 11 April 1836, lot 1288 for £12.5.0 to Croyat; Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel, no. 2355 (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, 9 May 1867, lot 2355 for 1720 francs; Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel, 1850 (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Paris, part I, 6 June 1878, lot 603; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Voynich, Jan. 1925.
Binding
18th/19th-century French gilt-tooled green morocco over paper boards. Pink pastepaper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves. Gilt edges.
Classification
Department