Accession number
PML 41002
Creator
Boethius, -524.
Object title
Le grant boece de consolacion nouvellement i[m]prime a paris.
Published
Imprime a paris : pour anthoine verart, Le .xix. iour du moys dauost Mil.CCCC.iiii.xx. et .xiiii [19 August 1494].
Description
[9] ii-cxliii, [5] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1949.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf t3r: Cy finist le grant boece de consolation nouvellement Imprime a paris pour anthoine verart. Le .xix. iour du moys dauost Mil.CCCC.iiii.xx. et .xiiii.
Printed in Vérard's types 3:117G, 8:430G, and 12:104G.
Signatures: A⁸; a⁶ b-r⁸ [long-s]⁶ t⁴; ²A⁴: 156 leaves, leaves t4 and ²A4 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
3 woodcuts, repeated: 1) lady and knight carrying a severed head, walking towards a king receiving the keys to a city from a kneeling attendant (leaves A2r and r1r); 2) suicide of Ajax (leaves a1r, f1v, and h4r); Deucalion and Pyrrha with the fall of the rebel angels (leaf m6v).
"Table de Boece," leaves ²A1r-3v.
Reprinted from the Colard Mansion edition of 1477, including Regnier's commentary (ISTC ib00813900).
Commentary by Regnier de Saint-Trudon.
Variant on leaf b6r (leaf xii).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 34 x 24.5 cm.
PML copy leaf b6r ends "choses temporel-".
Imprint from colophon, leaf t3r: Cy finist le grant boece de consolation nouvellement Imprime a paris pour anthoine verart. Le .xix. iour du moys dauost Mil.CCCC.iiii.xx. et .xiiii.
Printed in Vérard's types 3:117G, 8:430G, and 12:104G.
Signatures: A⁸; a⁶ b-r⁸ [long-s]⁶ t⁴; ²A⁴: 156 leaves, leaves t4 and ²A4 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
3 woodcuts, repeated: 1) lady and knight carrying a severed head, walking towards a king receiving the keys to a city from a kneeling attendant (leaves A2r and r1r); 2) suicide of Ajax (leaves a1r, f1v, and h4r); Deucalion and Pyrrha with the fall of the rebel angels (leaf m6v).
"Table de Boece," leaves ²A1r-3v.
Reprinted from the Colard Mansion edition of 1477, including Regnier's commentary (ISTC ib00813900).
Commentary by Regnier de Saint-Trudon.
Variant on leaf b6r (leaf xii).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 34 x 24.5 cm.
PML copy leaf b6r ends "choses temporel-".
Binding
19th-century full red goatskin over paper boards (34.5 x 24.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Chambolle-Duru. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Grant boece de consolacion
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Red ruling, perhaps added later. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 52 (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Arthur Rau, Aug. 1949.
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