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Martial de Paris, D'Auvergne

Les vigilles de la mort de Charles VII [French].

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page.]

a2r Martial de Paris, D'Auvergne: Les vigilles de la mort de Charles VII. ‘Inuitatorium'. Incipit: ‘[V]enite nunc et ploremus | Pour le trespas du feu bon roy | Et ses biensfaiz recolemus | Comme conduitz en bon arroy'; stanzas of 4 verses. Les poésies de Martial de Paris, 2 vols, (Paris, 1724).

Imprint

Imprint: Paris: Pierre Le Caron, [c.1500]. Folio.

Collation

Collation: a–c⁶ d⁸ e–p⁶ q⁴.

Types: Types: 440 G, first line of title; 98 B.

Leaves: 96 leaves.

Line number: 2 columns of 44 lines (a2r).

Type area: Type area: 213 ×156 mm (a2r).

Illustrations: Initials, lombard ‘N', and woodcuts. On a1v, a full-page woodcut of the birth of the king. 28 woodcuts of one column width, 15 of two columns width, including repeats. A small woodcut occasionally used in place of an initial. The woodcut on a6r, the angels appearing to the shepherds and the Nativity, appears to be from a Book of Hours.

Remarks: Leaf a1r, title: ‘Les uigilles | De la mort du feu Roy Charles septieſme / a neuf | pſeaulmes [et] neuf lecons / Contenans la cronique [et] | les faitz aduenuz durant la vie dudit feu roy / Cō= | poſees par maiſtre marcial de paris dit dauuergne: | procureur en parlement. || [Device, Polain 119; BMC VIII p. 141, Device B]'; a1v: woodcut. a2r: ‘Inuitatorium | [V]Enite nunc [et] ploremus | Pour le treſpas du feu bon roy | Et ſes bienſfaiz recolemus | . . .'; q4r, colophon: ‘¶Imprime a Paris par Pierre le caron demourant en la rue | de la iuyrie a lenſeigne de la roſe / ou a la premiere porte du palais'.

References

ISTC: im00294000

Hain: H 10799;

Goff: Goff M‑294;

Proctor: Pr 8144;

Others: CIBN M‑157; Sheppard 6355-6.

LCN: 14549100

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