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Title(s):
Le songe du vergier.
Additional Title(s):
Somnium viridarii.
Published/Created:
[Paris] : [Le Petit Laurens, for Jean Petit], [1499]
Physical Description:
[144] leaves ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0956
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Dated about Apr. 1499 in CIBN after the state of the device."--Incunabula short title catalogue.
Petit's device on recto of first leaf.
2 columns, 50 lines; Haebler, type 2, 4, 5 (210 G, 112 G, 85 G).
Variously attributed to Raoul de Presles, Philippe de Mézières, Charles de Louviers, and others.
Incunabula short title catalogue, iv00142000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, V142
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 16005
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M33113
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII, page 163
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0956: Imperfect: the last leaf of part II only, with woodcut depicting the author handing his book to the King of France. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Church and state.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Raoul, de Presles, 1316–1382, attributed author.
Mézières, Philippe de, 1327?-1405, attributed author.
Louviers, Charles Jacques de, active 1376, attributed author.
Le Petit Laurens, active 1491–1517, printer.
Petit, Jean, active 1492–1530, publisher.
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