Accession number
PML 62424
Creator
Jean, d'Arras, active 14th century.
Object title
Melusine / nouvelleme[n]t corrigee et imprimee a paris par Pierre le Caron.
Published
A Paris : par Pierre Le Caron [for Jehan Petit], [after February 1498]
Description
[114] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 1972.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r, with Petit's device.
Imprint from half-title page.
Date based on Petit's device, see Haebler, Verlegermarken des Jean Petit.
Printed in Le Caron's types 4:94G and 5:440G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-r⁶ s-t⁵: 113 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
65 woodcuts, some in interchangable segments, multiple repetitions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.7 x 17.5 cm.
PML copy missing 5 leaves: t1-5. Leaves a1 and a2 partially torn away, repaired with missing text replaced in manuscript.
Imprint from half-title page.
Date based on Petit's device, see Haebler, Verlegermarken des Jean Petit.
Printed in Le Caron's types 4:94G and 5:440G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-r⁶ s-t⁵: 113 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
65 woodcuts, some in interchangable segments, multiple repetitions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.7 x 17.5 cm.
PML copy missing 5 leaves: t1-5. Leaves a1 and a2 partially torn away, repaired with missing text replaced in manuscript.
Binding
Modern full black goatskin over paper boards (25.5 x 18.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Histoire de la belle Mélusine
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Perhaps James Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), 26th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, not in Lindesiana sale (see Bibliotheca Lindesiana: List of Manuscripts, Printed Books, no. 410); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, Feb. 1972.
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