Accession number
PML 195285
Creator
La Marche, Olivier de, approximately 1426-1502.
Object title
Le chevalier délibéré.
Published
Imprime a Lyon : par Martin Havard, [approximately 1500]
Description
[50] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 2009.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h5v: Imprime a lyon par Martin havard demoura[n]t en rue raisin pres nostreda[m]e de co[m]fort.
Printed in Havard's type 2:93G and 3:220G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-h⁶: 50 leaves, leaf h6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut on half-title page, leaf a1r.
Allegorical poem.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.2 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and h6 (blank); leaf a1 replaced in print facsimile.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h5v: Imprime a lyon par Martin havard demoura[n]t en rue raisin pres nostreda[m]e de co[m]fort.
Printed in Havard's type 2:93G and 3:220G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-h⁶: 50 leaves, leaf h6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut on half-title page, leaf a1r.
Allegorical poem.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.2 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and h6 (blank); leaf a1 replaced in print facsimile.
Binding
19th-century French full red morocco over paper boards (19.5 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Raoul Léonor Lignerolles (1817-1893), his sale, Paris, part II, 5 March 1894, lot 862; Hector Marie Auguste de Backer (1843-1925), bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Paris, part I, 17 Feb. 1926, lot 162; unidentified ownership, collation statement, 1933 (rear endleaf 4 recto, looks like Edmeé Maus's handwriting but no other typical provenance evidence); Bernard Quartich Ltd., cat. 1378 (2009), no. 17; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Quartich on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 2009.
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