Le fondement du saint hospital & de lordre de la cheualerie des hospitaliers de saint iehan baptiste de iherusale[m]
Publisher: Pierre Le Dru
Published: 1493
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 126
Other titles: Exordium in volumen ...
Notes: Signatures: a-p⁸, q⁶ (q6 blank).

Leaf a1r begins "Exordium in volumen stabilimẽto[rum] Rhodiorũ militũ sacri ordinis hospitalis sãcti iohãnis iherosolimitani", a letter of Pierre d'Aubusson regarding the French translation by Guillaume Caoursin; this is followed (a1v-c2v) by a bull of Innocent VIII, a letter of Aubusson in French, and a table of the chapters.

Ornamental capitals (from an alphabet used by Jean Tréperel); leaf a1r has ornamental borders and, at foot, a cut of Aubusson's arms.

"Proctor ... thought that this book might be assignable to Provins, the type being very like that used there by Tavernier. But all the material is Parisian and such a text is much more likely to have been printed in the capital.

The letters PL at end may well stand for Pierre Ledru, but this cannot be considered certain."--BMC.

Copinger-Reichling, 1437.

Copinger, 1438.

Proctor, 8819.

Goff, C-115.

BM 15th cent., VIII, 193 (IB.40721).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ic00115000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3704.