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La louenge et beauté des dames

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Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Lou.PF.2019.18.03

Michael Sabin, 2024 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title La louenge et beauté des dames
Shelfmarks Lou.PF.2019.18.03
Material Paper
Place of Origin Lyons, France
Date of Origin about 1489-1492
General Remarks

This identification of the title, printer, and date of this sheet has been confirmed through its comparison with scans of the unique copy of the c. 1489-1492 edition of La Louenge et beauté des dames, located at the Bibliothèque du Musée Condé.

Original Condition

Page Height 200 mm
Page Width 146 mm
Height of Written Area 142 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 24 – 25
Numbering

Printed signatures
Collation

Ten leaves, signed a1-10

Current Condition

Extent 1 unbound sheet of four leaves
Dimensions 400 x 288 mm
More about the Current Condition

Comparison with the copy at the Bibliothèque du Musée Condé confirms that this sheet consists of leaves aiii, aiv, a[7], and a[8]. There is a gap of 96 lines in the text between aivv and a[7]r, i.e., two leaves.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language French
    • Title La louenge et beauté des dames.
    • Content Description

      S.l., s.d., but identified in the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue as [Lyons: Printer of the Champion des Dames (Jean Du Pré (printer of Lyons)?), about 1489-1492].

      Leaves aiii, aiv, a[7], a[8]r: La louenge des dames.

      Leaf a[8]v: La louenge des dames (end); La beaute des femmes

History

Origin

From a board, subsequently removed. 
Remarks

Other materials from the board included:

  • Three bifolia of Eberhardus Bethuniensis (Eberhard of Béthune) Graecismus with commentary [manuscript, Germany? c. 1436-1462]
  • One unbound sheet (in quarto) of an unidentified grammar in Latin and French, including Formationes vocis activae et passivae, Forma compariationis regularis, and Forma seu gallici verborum
  • One unbound sheet (in quarto) of Sermones dominicales (Hagenau: Heinrich Gran for Johann Rynman, 28 September 1499)
  • One unbound sheet (in quarto) of an unidentified Postilla (perhaps in Type 4 of Lyons, Printer of Guido, “Casus longi”)
  • One unbound sheet (in quarto) of Nanni, Giovanni. Berosus Babylonicus etc. (Paris: Marnef, c. 1512-1520) 

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