Accession number
PML 534
Creator
Pierre, de la Cépède, active 15th century.
Object title
Paris et Vienne.
Published
Imprime a Paris : par Jehan Treperel, [approximately 1498]
Description
[52] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf g5v: Cy finist lystoire de vailla[n]t et noble chevalier Paris [et] de la belle Vienne fille du dauphin de vie[n]nois. Imprime a paris sur le pont nostredame a lenseigne Sainct laure[n]s Par Jehan treperel marchant et Imprimeur.
Tréperel's device, leaf g6v.
Printed in Tréperel's types 3*:102G and 11:120G.
Signatures: a-e⁸ f-g⁶: 52 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
27 woodcuts, many repeated.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.2 x 13.7 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf g5v: Cy finist lystoire de vailla[n]t et noble chevalier Paris [et] de la belle Vienne fille du dauphin de vie[n]nois. Imprime a paris sur le pont nostredame a lenseigne Sainct laure[n]s Par Jehan treperel marchant et Imprimeur.
Tréperel's device, leaf g6v.
Printed in Tréperel's types 3*:102G and 11:120G.
Signatures: a-e⁸ f-g⁶: 52 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
27 woodcuts, many repeated.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.2 x 13.7 cm.
Binding
19th-century full red morocco over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on by Lortic fils.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: yl/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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