Accession number
PML 75073
Object title
Psalterium cum hymnis.
Uniform title
Bible. Psalms. 1487.
Published
A Paris : [Pierre Le Rouge,] pour Anthoine Verad, .xx. iour de Decembre mil.iiiic.iiii.xx. [et] .vii. [20 December 1487]
Description
[240] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 13.5 cm (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund and Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1975.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf D4r: Ce present saultier fust acheve le .xx. iour de Decembre mil.iiiic.iiii.xx. [et] .vii. pour anthoine verad libraire demoura[n]t a paris sur le pont mostredame a lymage sainct Jehan levangeliste ou au palaiz empres la chappelle ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Printed in Le Rouge's type 5:84G.
Signatures: [1¹²]; [a]-z [et] [con] A-C⁸ D⁴: 240 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Woodcut illustrations and borders.
Capital spaces, most with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 12.7 x 8.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf D4r: Ce present saultier fust acheve le .xx. iour de Decembre mil.iiiic.iiii.xx. [et] .vii. pour anthoine verad libraire demoura[n]t a paris sur le pont mostredame a lymage sainct Jehan levangeliste ou au palaiz empres la chappelle ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Printed in Le Rouge's type 5:84G.
Signatures: [1¹²]; [a]-z [et] [con] A-C⁸ D⁴: 240 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Woodcut illustrations and borders.
Capital spaces, most with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 12.7 x 8.5 cm.
Binding
19th-century English gilt-tooled full green goatskin over paper boards (13.5 x 9 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Leighton (Brewer St. W). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Psalterium cum canticis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials (most realized), paragraph marks, capital stokes, and underlining. Rubrics throughout in same hand. Signed at colophon with an elaborate cipher and inscription: "tourne a[?]non le xv.me sto. de septembre, iiiixx [et] x [i.e. 15 September 1490]," (leaf D4r). Annotations: Several saints added to calendar, including: Germanus, Bp. of Auxerre (31 July), Maximus, Bp. of Trier (13 Sept.), Quintinus, matyr (31 Oct.), and Eustachius et sociorum (3 Nov.); Sts. Christopher, George, Leodegar, and Sixtus added to litany (leaf z7r). Prayer, "Ecce venit rex occurramus obviam" (leaf [a]1v).
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 462, (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Emdée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from André Jammes on the Fellows Fund and Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1975.
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