Bod-Inc: N-130
Nouvelles
Les cent nouvelles nouvelles [French].
Analysis of Content
aa1r [Title-page.]
aa2r [Second title-page, with woodcut.]
aa2v ‘La table'.
bb4v [Preface?] Incipit: ‘Comme ainsi soit que entre les bons et prouffitables passe temps . . .’
b1r Les cent nouvelles nouvelles. ‘La premiere nouuelle.’ Incipit: ‘[E]n la ville de Valenciennes eut nagueres ung notable bourgoys . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Paris: Antoine Vérard, [c.1495.] Folio.
Collation
Collation: aa6 bb4 b–v6 x4 AA–GG6 HH8.
Illustrations: Woodcuts.
References
ISTC: in00277300
Hain: C 4440;
BMC: BMC VIII 92;
Proctor: Pr 8445;
Others: Macfarlane 106; Sheppard 6258.
LCN: 14837713
Copies
Copy number: N-130(1)
The device is cut out and mounted. Leaf b1 is mounted.
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; gilt-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, and green silk bookmark.
Size: 275 × 203 × 32 mm.
Size of leaf: 271 × 190 mm.
‘V. E. 29' in pencil on verso of front endleaf.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce N 291.
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