Accession number
PML 549
Published
Imprime a Paris : Pour Anthoine Verart demourant deva[n]t nostre dame ..., lan mil.iiii.CCCC.iiii.xx.xviii [1498, but actually after July 1503]
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
In three parts, each with xylographic title.
Xylographic title to part I damaged, lacking the final r in "premier".
Imprint from colophon, part III (Prophecies, largely copied from 1498 edition), leaf [con]6r: Cy finissent les prophecies merlin nouuellement imprime a paris lan mil.iiii.CCCC.iiii.xx.xviii. pour Anthoine Verart demourant deva[n]t nostre dame a lymage saint Iehan levangeliste/ ou au palays au premier pillier devant la chapelle ou len cha[n]te la messe de messeigneurs de parlement.
Date from ISTC and Bechtel. Vérard's address in the second edition is changed from "sur le pont nostre dame" (1498 edition) to "devant nostre dame," indicating that printing took place after July 1503.
Signatures: part I (Premier volume): a⁶; A-X AA-PP⁶: 222 leaves, leaf PP6 blank; part II (Second volume): ā⁶; AAA-VVV AAAA-HHHH⁶ IIII⁴: 178 leaves; part III (Prophecies): A⁶ B²; a-o⁶ p⁸ q-z [et] [con]⁶: 160 leaves.
This edition is largely a reprint of Vérard's 1498 edition with some typographic differences, retaining the original date at the colophon.
PML 549 is part III only; parts I-II (Premier and Second volumes de Merlin) are found at PML 531 (ChL 1534).
PML copy with xylographic title cut-out and remounted.
Xylographic title to part I damaged, lacking the final r in "premier".
Imprint from colophon, part III (Prophecies, largely copied from 1498 edition), leaf [con]6r: Cy finissent les prophecies merlin nouuellement imprime a paris lan mil.iiii.CCCC.iiii.xx.xviii. pour Anthoine Verart demourant deva[n]t nostre dame a lymage saint Iehan levangeliste/ ou au palays au premier pillier devant la chapelle ou len cha[n]te la messe de messeigneurs de parlement.
Date from ISTC and Bechtel. Vérard's address in the second edition is changed from "sur le pont nostre dame" (1498 edition) to "devant nostre dame," indicating that printing took place after July 1503.
Signatures: part I (Premier volume): a⁶; A-X AA-PP⁶: 222 leaves, leaf PP6 blank; part II (Second volume): ā⁶; AAA-VVV AAAA-HHHH⁶ IIII⁴: 178 leaves; part III (Prophecies): A⁶ B²; a-o⁶ p⁸ q-z [et] [con]⁶: 160 leaves.
This edition is largely a reprint of Vérard's 1498 edition with some typographic differences, retaining the original date at the colophon.
PML 549 is part III only; parts I-II (Premier and Second volumes de Merlin) are found at PML 531 (ChL 1534).
PML copy with xylographic title cut-out and remounted.
Description
3 volumes : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (Fol.)
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required (except leaf a1r, unrealized). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Early pen trials (leaf [con]6v). French bibliographic description, 18th/19th century (front endleaf 2 verso).
Provenance
Unidentified owner, armorial binding; Charles Paul Jean-Baptiste Bourgevin de Vialart de Moligny (1713-1794), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); unidentified price code: ae+/ and shelf mark: No. 12718 (front endleaf 1 verso); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown), brought the 3 parts together; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and price code: sm/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Binding
18th-century French brown calf over paper boards, with unidentified gilt armorial (not Bourgevin de Vialart de Moligny); repaired by Sanford & Clarke.
Classification
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