Accession number
PML 42037
Object title
La fleur des commandemens de Dieu.
Uniform title
Fleur.
Published
Nouvellement imprime a Paris : pour Antoine Vérard, le septiesme iour de mars. M.CCCCC [7 March 1500/1501]
Description
[218] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1950.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf A1r: La fleur des commandemens de Dieu avec plusieurs exemples et auctoritez extraictes tant de sainctes escriptures que dautres docteurs et bons anciens peres, lequel est moult utile a toutes gens.
Imprint from colophon, leaf ii6r: Cy finist le livre intitule la fleur des commandemens de dieu ... Et a este nouvellement imprime a Paris pour Anthoine verard libraire marcha[n]t demourant en la rue saint iaques pres petit pont a lenseigne saint iehan levangeliste ou au palais au premier pilier devant la chappelle ou lon chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens. Lequel fut acheve le septiesme iour de mars. M.CCCCC.
Vérard's device, leaf ii6v.
Printed in Vérard's types 16:105G and 17:85G.
Signatures: A⁶ B⁸ C⁶; a-z [et] aa-ii⁶: 218 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
5 woodcuts, from 3 blocks.
Most initials provided in woodcut, but some capital spaces with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26 x 18.3 cm.
PML copy with leaf a1 rebacked.
Imprint from colophon, leaf ii6r: Cy finist le livre intitule la fleur des commandemens de dieu ... Et a este nouvellement imprime a Paris pour Anthoine verard libraire marcha[n]t demourant en la rue saint iaques pres petit pont a lenseigne saint iehan levangeliste ou au palais au premier pilier devant la chappelle ou lon chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens. Lequel fut acheve le septiesme iour de mars. M.CCCCC.
Vérard's device, leaf ii6v.
Printed in Vérard's types 16:105G and 17:85G.
Signatures: A⁶ B⁸ C⁶; a-z [et] aa-ii⁶: 218 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
5 woodcuts, from 3 blocks.
Most initials provided in woodcut, but some capital spaces with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26 x 18.3 cm.
PML copy with leaf a1 rebacked.
Binding
Modern German gilt-tooled full green goatskin over paper boards (27 x 19 cm), sewn on 5 supports by H. Fikentscher of Leipzig, 1922. Watercolored paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
La fleur des commandements
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (where required). Annotations: Contemporary English inscription: "I pray you whan you onyes(?) loke pray for her that wartys...," and two contemporary French and English inscriptions, trimmed at outer margin (leaf A1r).
Provenance
Unidentified shelf marks: G--44 (crossed out), G--45 (leaf ii6v); H. Braur, signature, 19th century (leaf A2r); Gerhart Güttler (1889-1966), bull's head stamp (front endleaf 2 verso); unidentified German sale catalogue description, no. 93; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Arthur Rau, Nov. 1950.
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