Le Recueil des histoires de Troyes: Edition Description
Summary:
- Author: Lefèvre, Raoul
- Title: Le Recueil des histoires de Troyes
- Place: [Ghent?; also recorded as Bruges]
- Printer/Publisher: [Colard Mansion; or David Aubert for William Caxton]
- Date: [about 1474; or 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:
[fol. 2r-]
Incipit: Cy commence le volume Intitule
- Item
2:
[fol. 121r-]
Incipit: Cy commence le second liure
- Item
3:
[fl. 207r-]
Incipit: ES deux liures pcedens par
- Item
4:
[fol. 286v, l.9-]
Incipit: Le filz de cestui achilles
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Material: Paper. See watermarks used in this book (from Watermarks in incunabula printing in the Low Countries).
Format: F°
Ideal collation: a-m10, A-H10 l6, aa-hh10. 286 leaves, 1, 120 blank.
Layout description:
- Written Lines: 31
- Layout:
Type:
- Number of types: 1
- Type: 1:120
List of Copies:
- Coming soon.
Bibliography:
- BMC IX, 131
- Cx,
6
- DeR(C),
3b
- Duff(R),
243
- ISTC,
il00113000
Administration Information:
- Lauren MacDougall, 10/02/2015, 02/06/2015.