Accession number
PML 78692
Creator
Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century.
Object title
Mélibée et Prudence.
Published
[Lyons] : [Guillaume Le Roy], [approximately 1478-1480]
Description
[32] leaves ; 23 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Endowment Fund, Fellows Fund, and with the specialy assistance of Mrs. Francis Kettaneh and Mrs. Jmaes H. Ripley, 1986.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC. Dated by GW to about 1479.
Printed in Le Roy's type 1**:117G.
Signatures: a-d⁸: 32 leaves, leaf d8 blank.
Paper format: Median quarto.
Explicit corrected in manuscript, probably in print shop, to include "de[n]" (leaf d8r): Cy finist ce prese[n]t livre qui est die mellibee [et] pru[de[n]]ce.
Woodcut initials.
On the translation, attributed to Jean de Meung and Renaud de Louens (Louhans), see Histoire littéraire de la France 37 (1936/38) pp. 488-506.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 22.7 x 16.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: d8 (blank).
PML copy with bottom margin torn away and repaired (leaf d7), text unaffected.
Printed in Le Roy's type 1**:117G.
Signatures: a-d⁸: 32 leaves, leaf d8 blank.
Paper format: Median quarto.
Explicit corrected in manuscript, probably in print shop, to include "de[n]" (leaf d8r): Cy finist ce prese[n]t livre qui est die mellibee [et] pru[de[n]]ce.
Woodcut initials.
On the translation, attributed to Jean de Meung and Renaud de Louens (Louhans), see Histoire littéraire de la France 37 (1936/38) pp. 488-506.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 22.7 x 16.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: d8 (blank).
PML copy with bottom margin torn away and repaired (leaf d7), text unaffected.
Binding
Modern paper wrapper. Sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary arithmetical note, leaf a8v.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purcashed from Martin Breslauer on the Fellows Endowment Fund, Fellows Fund, and with the specialy assistance of Mrs. Francis Kettaneh and Mrs. James H. Ripley, 1986.
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