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Le fardelet hystorial.

Accession number
PML 75070
Creator
Rolevinck, Werner, 1425-1502.
Object title

Le fardelet hystorial.

Published

Imprime audit Lyon : [Mathias Huss], Lan mil CCCClxxxii [1483, before 30 August]

Description

[96] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1975.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m2v: ... Ne aultre chose por le prese[n]t ie p[re]sumys de dire seno[n] q[ue] ce p[re]se[n]t livre i[n]titule peiti faitz ou fard[e]let des temps a este translate de latin en francoys par venerable et discrete p[er]sonne maistre Pierre farget docteur en saincte theologie de lordre des freres angustins [sic] et du couvent de lyon et imprime audit lyon Lan mil .CCCC.lxxxiii. Regnant ledit Loys paisiblement en france, Et lan de son regne .xxii.
Printed in Huss's type 1:106G.
According to the colophon, Louis XI was still alive when the book was printed (CIBN).
Signatures: a-m⁸: 96 leaves, leaves a1 and m8 blank(?). Leaf a2 signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Median folio.
Woodcuts.
Translated by Pierre Farget.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.6 x 22 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and m8 (blanks?).
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled full blue goatskin over paper boards (33 x 23 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Checklist title: Petit fardelet des temps
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Pale wash on capital letters. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
James Erhart Coppinger (d. 1863), booklabel (front pastedown); P. Desq, booklabel (front pastedown), sale Lyon, 1866; Edmée Maus (1905-1971), no. 352, monogram booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased through trade with André Jammes, 1975.
Classification
Century
Department