Accession number
PML 23665
Creator
Aristotle.
Object title
Le livre de politiques dartistote.
Published
A Paris : [Antoine Caillaut for] Antoine Vérard, le viii jour daoust Mil quatre Cens quatre vings et neuf [8 August 1489]
Description
[16], i-CC.xvii, [9], .ii.-C.xi., [1], ii-xxi, [7] (with misnumbering) leaves : illus. (2 woodcuts) ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf dd5v: Ce present livre de politiques fut acheve le viiie jour daoust Mil quatre Cens quatre vings et neuf. Par Anthoine verad demoura[n]t a Paris sur le po[n]t nostre dame a lymage sai[n]ct Jehan levangeliste, ou au palais en la gra[n]t salle au pres de la cheppelle ou on cha[n]te la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Printed in Caillaut's types 2:107G (later owned by Marchant) and 112G and 112B (see BMC and Needham).
The majority of the work (quires f-bb, A-O, ²A-C (not leaves ²C1.8)) printed in Caillaut's types 111B and 112G, with quires a-b, a-e, ā, dd, and leaves ²C1.8 set in type 107B. The paper stocks indicate that the whole was printed in a single shop, i.e. Caillaut's shop (see Needham, Hellinga Festschrift, pp. 353-54).
Verad's device, leaf dd8r.
Signatures: a⁶ b¹⁰; a-e⁸; f-z [et] [con] aa-bb⁸; ā⁸; A-O⁸; ²A⁸ ²B⁶ ²C⁸ dd⁶: 380 leaves, leaf A1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
On the translations see A.D. Menut's editions, Le livre de Yconomique d'Aristote, Philadelphia 1957, and Le livre de politiques, Philadelphia 1970.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.3 x 22 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf dd5v: Ce present livre de politiques fut acheve le viiie jour daoust Mil quatre Cens quatre vings et neuf. Par Anthoine verad demoura[n]t a Paris sur le po[n]t nostre dame a lymage sai[n]ct Jehan levangeliste, ou au palais en la gra[n]t salle au pres de la cheppelle ou on cha[n]te la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Printed in Caillaut's types 2:107G (later owned by Marchant) and 112G and 112B (see BMC and Needham).
The majority of the work (quires f-bb, A-O, ²A-C (not leaves ²C1.8)) printed in Caillaut's types 111B and 112G, with quires a-b, a-e, ā, dd, and leaves ²C1.8 set in type 107B. The paper stocks indicate that the whole was printed in a single shop, i.e. Caillaut's shop (see Needham, Hellinga Festschrift, pp. 353-54).
Verad's device, leaf dd8r.
Signatures: a⁶ b¹⁰; a-e⁸; f-z [et] [con] aa-bb⁸; ā⁸; A-O⁸; ²A⁸ ²B⁶ ²C⁸ dd⁶: 380 leaves, leaf A1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
On the translations see A.D. Menut's editions, Le livre de Yconomique d'Aristote, Philadelphia 1957, and Le livre de politiques, Philadelphia 1970.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.3 x 22 cm.
Binding
Modern full light red goatskin over paper boards (32.5 x 23 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Yconomique
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary French manuscript fragments preserved from previous binding.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper Inc., June 1926.
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