Meditations sur les sept psaumes: Edition Description
Summary:
- Author: Alliaco, Petrus de
- Title: Meditationes circa psalmos poenitentiales [French] Les sept degrés de l'échelle
- Place: [Bruges; or Ghent?]
- Printer/Publisher: [Colard Mansion; or David Aubert for William Caxton]
- Date: [between 1473/74 and 1476; or about 1474-75]
- Main Language: French
- Note: Blades 1861-63 described it as printed in Bruges, in William Caxton's type I, but probably executed by
his partner Colard Mansion, after Caxton had left Bruges for England.
According to Hellinga 2001,
however, probably printed by David Aubert for William Caxton.
- Contents:
- Item
1: A vraye penitance est comme
[sig. 1a-]
- Item
2: Donne moy sire en meditacion
[sig. 33a-]
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Format: F°
Ideal collation: a-c8 d10. 34 leaves, 34 blank.
Layout description:
- Written Lines: 31
- Layout:
Type:
- Number of types: 1
- Type: 1:120
List of Copies:
- Coming soon. Only copy (UK, London, British Library, IB.49408) is known, according to ISTC.
Bibliography:
- BMC, IX
131
- Cx,
7
- DeR(C),
3d.1
- Duff(R),
25
- ISTC,
ia00479600
- Blades, W., The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, with Evidence of the Typographical Connection with Colard
Mansion, the Printer at Bruges, 2 vols (London: Trubner, 1861-3)
- Hellinga, Lotte, 'William Caxton, Colard Mansion, and the Printer in Type 1', Bulletin du Bibliophile (2001), 86-114
Administration Information:
- Lauren MacDougall, 10/02/2015, 02/06/2015; TK.