Valere le grant.
Valerius Maximus.
Simon,de Hesdin,active 14th century,translator.
Nicolas,de Gonesse,active 15th century,translator.
Verard, Antoine,-approximately 1513,printer.
Urfé, Claude d',1501-1558,former owner.StEdNL
Belin, Théophile,bookseller.StEdNL
La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc,duc de,1708-1780,former owner.StEdNL
MacCarthy Reagh, Justin,1744-1811,former owner.StEdNL
Murray, Charles Fairfax,1849-1919,former owner.StEdNL
Mensing, Ant. W. M.,1866-1936,former owner.StEdNL
Wier, Richard,-1792,binder.StEdNL
Bernard Quaritch (Firm),bookseller.StEdNL
[Paris : for Antoine Vérard,
between Oct. 1499 and July 1503]
Dated from the address (CIBN).
Translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse.
Colophon: Imprime a Paris pour Anthoine Verard, marchant libraire demourant a Paris au carrefour Saint Seuerin a lenseigne Saint Iehan lEuangeliste ... [printer's device (Renouard 1088)]; imprint date based on address. Cf. Macfarlane.
Printed on vellum.
First page of each book has painted border and coloured illustration. Gilded initials on red and blue backgrounds. Faint red underlining throughout.
Signatures: ã⁶ ẽ⁶ A-X⁸; [rum]¹⁰ a-t⁸ v¹⁰.
Thirteenth leaf (A1) is blank.
ISTC
Macfarlane
Copinger
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
With the d'Urfé arms painted onto foot of recto of leaf A2. With a catalogue cutting in which this book is number 288. Entry states that this book was number 5657 in the sale catalogue of the Duc de la Vallière and number 5483 in the sale catalogue of MacCarthy Reagh, number 9391 in the supplement to Longman's catalogue for 1817, number 809 in the Fairfax Murray sale at Christie's in 1918 and number 586 in the sale of A. W. Mensing of Amsterdam at Sotheby's in 1936. Bookseller's label of Théophile Belin, Paris on verso of front free endpaper. Quaritch collation note on verso of back freen endpaper. Bought by the Library from the Lauriston Castle Fund 6 September 1943.
18th-century red morocco with gilt border on front and back boards, gilt tooled spine compartments, gilt tooled turn-ins, gilt edges and marbled endpapers. Possibly by Richard Wier in the 1770s for MacCarthy Reagh.
Roman emperors
France Paris.