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Creator:
Boutillier, Jean, -1395 or 1396
Title(s):
Soit co[m]me[n]ce ce liure appelle so[m]me rural / collegie et somme par moi iehan le boutillier homme rural ...
Additional Title(s):

Soit commence ce liure appelle somme rural

Somme rural

Incipit of first table, leaf 2a1r: Cy commence la table du premier liure intitule So[m]me Rural ...
Published/Created:
[Abbeville, France] : [Pierre Geŕard], [1486]
Physical Description:
[10], Clxviii, [4], lxxi, [1] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0449
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title from text incipit, leaf a1r, line 38. Preceded by: "Sensuyte le titre du composeur de ce present liure. In nomine d[omi]ni Amen. Soit ... "
Imprint and dates as given in ISTC and GW. Colophon, leaf I5r, reads: "Cy fine la somme rural compilee [par] Iehan boutillier conseillier du roy a paris. Et imprime en la ville dabbeuille [par] pierres gerard lan mil.cccc.lxxx & vi."
The first book printed in Abbeville.
Collation: folio: 2a¹⁰ a-q⁸ [round r]⁸ r⁸ [long s]⁸ s-t⁸; 2A⁴ A-F⁸ G¹⁰ H⁸ I⁶ [$4 (+2a5, G5; -2A3,4, I4) signed]; 254 leaves, folios [10 unnumbered] i-Clxviii; ²[4 unnumbered] i-lxxi [lxxii (blank)] [misprinting ¹xxix as xxx, xlviii as xlvii, lxxviii as lxxvi; ²lvii as lvi, lviii as lvi]. Gatherings 2a and 2A contain the tables for books 1 and 2 respectively.
Type: 109G. 2 columns, 47 lines, 255 x 157 mm.
With a full-page woodcut on leaf 2a10v, depicting the king of France enthroned, with councillors.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ib01052000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4968
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-1052
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 3689
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, B-495A (fragment)
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, 3273
Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, 2791
Hillard, D. Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France. 6, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 479
Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables, B-739
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 855
Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of books mostly from the presses of the first printers ... collected by Rush C. Hawkins, 454
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0449: Imperfect: one leaf only, with the full-page woodcut of the king enthroned (uncolored). From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Customary law -- France -- Early works to 1800.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Gérard, Pierre, active 1486–1487, printer.
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