Accession number
PML 21993
Object title
Le debat du corps et de lame.
Published
[Lyon] : [Printer of the 'Champion des Dames' (Jean Du Pré (printer of Lyons)?)], [approximately 1488-1492].
Description
[16] leaves ; 19.5 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the 'Champion des Dames''s type 1:121G (Du Pré's type 22:121G).
On the printer (designated by Proctor the Printer of the Complainte de l'âme damnée), see BMC VIII pp. lvi and 281.
ISTC dates as between 1488 and 1492; GW about 1485/90.
PML Checklist dates as: "[1500] ?earlier."
Signatures: a-b⁶ c⁴: 16 leaves, leaf c4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Large woodcut (grotesque) initial L on title.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.5 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the 'Champion des Dames''s type 1:121G (Du Pré's type 22:121G).
On the printer (designated by Proctor the Printer of the Complainte de l'âme damnée), see BMC VIII pp. lvi and 281.
ISTC dates as between 1488 and 1492; GW about 1485/90.
PML Checklist dates as: "[1500] ?earlier."
Signatures: a-b⁶ c⁴: 16 leaves, leaf c4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Large woodcut (grotesque) initial L on title.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
Modern full red morocco (19.5 x 14 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
Débat du corps et de lâme
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary title inscription, leaf a1r (faded).
Provenance
Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel, no. 1673 (front endleaf 1 verso); his sale, part I, 9 May 1867, lot 1673 for 200 fr. (in Bauzonnet-Trautz); Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, Sotheby's, part II, 5 June 1912, lot 2061 to Quaritch for £22; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, March 1923.
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