Accession number
PML 65071
Object title
Le debat du vieulx et du jeune. Nouvellement fait.
Published
[Paris] : [Jean Tréperel], [approximately 1495]
Description
[8] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Loeb and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schäfer, 1974.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC. Tréperel's device, leaf a1r.
Dated at PML; GW dates about 1497.
Printed in Tréperel's type 3*:102G.
Signatures: a⁸: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts of old and young man, leaves a2v and a3r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.1 x 12.4 cm.
Imprint from ISTC. Tréperel's device, leaf a1r.
Dated at PML; GW dates about 1497.
Printed in Tréperel's type 3*:102G.
Signatures: a⁸: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts of old and young man, leaves a2v and a3r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.1 x 12.4 cm.
Binding
Modern full purple goatskin over paper boards (19 x 13 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
Débat du vieux et du jeune
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), inscription: "Bibliotecae Colbertinae" (leaf a1r), library inherited by: Jean Baptiste Colbert (1651-1690), then to Jacques Nicolas Colbert, Archbishop of Rouen, then to his nephew abbé Charles Eléonor Colbert (d. 1747); Bibliothecae Colbertina sale, Paris, 1728, part II, lot 11701 (then part of a Sammelband including Alexis, Le martyrologe des fausses langues (Paris, 1493; probably GW 1252) and Les commandements de Dieu et du diable (perhaps GW 7255)); Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso); his sale, 9 May 1867, lot 1670 for 200 francs; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 114, (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Emdée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes, Aug. 1967 (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E. Rossignol as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Loeb and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schäfer, May 1974.
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