La mer des hystoires, [July 1488-Feb. 1489]
- Title(s):
- La mer des hystoires.
- Additional Title(s):
- Mer des histoires.
- Published/Created:
- [Paris] : [Pierre Le Rouge], [July 1488-Feb. 1489]
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. (270, the last leaf blank; 310 leaves, leaf 274 blank) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 42 cm. (fol.)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0531Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3411099
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BEIN: One of the variations of v.1 with text on fol. 13 reading: [P]our // euiter // les grãs // erreurs.
Place and printer from ISTC; imprint dates from BM 15th cent.
Vol. 2 printed for Vincent Commin.
Woodcuts: ill., initials, borders, geneal. tables, 2 maps, ports., printer's device.
For a detailed description of the woodcuts, see BM 15th cent.
"In the prefatory matter (vol. i, 2a-4a) the author remarks that he has translated (or rather adapted) his book from the Rudimentum nouitiorum, with additional matter concerning the kings of France, and that he was engaged on the work at the time of the succession of Charles VIII in 1483. He does not mention his name but says that he is a native of the district of Beauvais and has undertaken his task at the request of André de la Haye, seigneur de Chaumont. LeRouge had before him the editio princeps of the Rudimentum nouitiorum, Lucas Brandis, Lubeck, 1475 ... but decorated his own book more effectively ..."--BM 15th cent. Cf. also Polain, which notes that this work is an adaptation.
Adaptation may be attributed to Pierre Desrey; cf. Henri Monceaux, Les Le Rouge de Chablis, 1896.
The martyrology of Usuard ([28] leaves at end of v. 2) has heading: Cy apres sensuit le martirologe des sainctz chapitre cent xiiij[ième] du prologue.
The Latin original (Lübeck, 1475) was written by Giovanni Colonna; has been erroneously ascribed to Burchardus de Monte Sion.
An unsigned and untitled circular world map from a woodcut (two blocks with handcut lettering except for one name printed from a type insert) appears on leaf lxxi of v. 1; the majority of the place names are in French rather than Latin. A map of Palestine with heading Cedar et ses tabernacles appears on verso of leaf headed viii[superscript xx]xvii [i.e. leaf 177] and recto of leaf [178]. Cf. Tony Campbell, Earliest printed maps, 1987, 215-216.
Colophon of v. 1: Ce premier volume fust acheue a paris par Pierre le Rouge imprimeur du Roy. Lan Mil iiij[superscript c] iiij[superscript xx] et viij [i.e. 1488] ou mois de Iuillet. Vol. 2: Ce present volume fust acheue ou mois de Feurier pour Vincent co[m]min marchant demourant a lenseigne de la rose en la rue noeufue de Nostredame de paris. et i[m]prime par Maistere Pierre le Rouge libraire [et] Imprimeur du Roy Nostresire. Lan Mil. CCCC. iiij[superscript xx] et viij[i.e. 1488].
Capital spaces with guide letters, filled in red; first initial in v. 1 (166 x 157 mm.) illuminated and first initial in v. 2 (170 x 155 mm.) historiated and painted with painted border on four sides; woodcut on leaf a1 recto of v. 1 is illuminated with a painted historiated border on four sides; paragraph marks and other strokes in red or blue.
Signatures: v. 1: pi⁴ ā⁸ ²a-z⁸ [et]⁸ aa-gg⁸ hh¹⁰ v. 2: A-X⁸ AA-MM⁸ NN¹⁰ ss⁸ ā⁸ ē⁸ ī⁸ ō⁸
Incunabula short title catalogue, ir00346000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R346
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 3991
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M39081
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII, 109 (IC. 40017)
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0531: Imperfect: four leaves only, including the incipit leaf to part 4. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink. - Subject Terms:
- Drury, Erasmus -- Autograph, 1612.France -- Kings and rulers -- Early works to 1800.Incunabula in Yale Library.Lucerne. Dix siècles de livres français, exposition, 1949 -- Bookplate.Maus, Edmee -- Bookplate.P., D. -- Bookplate.Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.World history -- Early works to 1800.
- Form/Genre:
- Genealogies.
Maps.
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
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