Bible en francois. 1510?. 2°. Paris: Gillet Couteau, for Antoine Verard.

1510

[Bible en francois.]

Le premier [–second] volume de la bible en francoiz.

[Paris]: [Colophon:] Imprimee pour anthoine verard a paris [pr. by G. Cousteau], [c. 1510].

2°: ^πa⁶ ^πb⁴ (b4 blank); a–l⁶ m⁴ n–z aa–vv⁶; ^πA⁶ ^πB⁴ A–X⁶ yC &C⁴ AA–RR⁶.

Printed in Paris for Antoine Verard by Gillet Cousteau with Verard’s typographical material.

Damage to Verard’s device suggests a date of c. 1510 or later; Macfarlane and the Inventaire chronologique give [1507].

There are anomalies in the signatures: two gatherings signed ‘yC’ and ‘&C’, and the leaves of the preliminary gatherings ^πa, b, A and B are signed ‘a’, ‘aa’, ‘aaa’, ‘b’, ‘bb’, etc.

Translated by Guyart des Moulins from the Historia scholastica of Pierre le Mangeur.

Signature pattern: ‘$i’–‘$iii’.

Catchword pattern: none.

Types: B7 (99mm).

Initials: 17×15; 162×155; 15 strapwork; 26 strapwork; 20; 28; 19 typecaps; Macfarlane L9 (with 2 breaks).

Devices: Renouard 1088 (A. Verard).

Lombards: 14.0.

Illustrations: woodcuts; xylographic title.

Inventaire chronologique 1507, no. 29.

Macfarlane, Verard, no. 156.

[IS000633]

3037.ee.4.