Accession number
Heineman 306
Creator
Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.
Object title
Le rommant de la rose.
Published
[Lyon] : [Guillaume Le Roy], [approximately 1487]
Description
[150] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Notes
Begun by Guillaume de Lorris, and finished by Jean de Meung.
Title from title page, leaf a1r: Le Rommant De La Rose.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Le Roy's type 5*:111G.
Signatures: a-s⁸ t⁶: 150 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Illustrated with 92 woodcuts, with 7 blocks repeated.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1, replaced in facsimile; leaf a2 remargined.
Title from title page, leaf a1r: Le Rommant De La Rose.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Le Roy's type 5*:111G.
Signatures: a-s⁸ t⁶: 150 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Illustrated with 92 woodcuts, with 7 blocks repeated.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1, replaced in facsimile; leaf a2 remargined.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (28.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Chambolle-Duru and Marius Michel, doreur, with Bibliothèque de Mello gilt armorial. Gilt-tooled green goatskin doublures with marbled and plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and ruling. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Bibliothèque de Mello, armorial binding, his sale, Charles Porquet (Paris), 5 May 1890, lot 419; Félix Solar (1815-1871), his sale, Paris, 19 Nov. 1860, lot 1040; Hector de Backer (1843-1925), his sale, Paris, part I, 17 Feb. 1926, lot 124; Dannie N. Heineman (1872-1962), bookplate (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
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