Accession number
PML 48093
Creator
Louis XI, King of France, 1423-1483.
Object title
Le rosyer des guerres.
Published
[Lyon] : [Michel Topié and Jacques Heremberck], [approximately 1489].
Description
[20] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1956.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Topié and Heremberck's type 2:100/101G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-c⁶: 20 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Topié and Heremberck's type 2:100/101G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-c⁶: 20 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 cm.
Binding
Modern full red goatskin over paper boards (20 x 13 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Semet & Plumelle. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Arthur Rau, Oct. 1956.
Classification
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