Jean Ier Du Pré
Printer in Paris, 1481-1504
Imprimeur, libraire-juré
Du Pré’s dated work terminates in 1502 (Inventaire chronologique).
The colophon of an edition of December 1504 has impressum ab successoribus magistri Iohannis de prato; it was printed for booksellers in London.
Renouard records that his widow Claire Dimanche worked at the same address until 1507 and was still alive in 1513.
A book was printed at the sign of the Two Swans in 1514 (IS001404);
the Inventaire chronologique (1514, no. 762) records its printer as ‘successeurs de Jean Ier Du Pré?’.
Renouard records no other firm working at the Deux Cygnes.
- Address
- In vico sancti Iacobi ad signum duorum Cygnorum;
- Aux deux Cynes en la grant rue Saint Iacques (rue St Jacques, at the sign of the two swans).
- References
- BMC, viii, 32–38;
- Renouard, Répertoire, p. 130-131.
- Claudin, I, 209.
- BnF Data: Jean Du Pré (14 ..- 1504)
- Devices
- Types
Name |
Size |
Dates |
Notes
|
R6 |
100 |
1501 |
|
T25 |
96 |
1491-1505/1506 |
|
T17 |
112 |
1504-1505/1506 |
|
T9 |
150 |
1504 |
|
T16 |
116 |
1514 |
|
Rot81 |
64 |
1514 |
|
Music |
|
1504 |
|
- Lombards
Size |
Dates
|
11.0 |
1504
|
19.0 |
1504
|
5.0 |
1504
|
- Initials
Height |
Dates |
Notes
|
24x32 |
1494-1501 |
Claudin, I, 277
|
38 |
1504
|
125x90 |
1504
|
14 |
1514 |
successor?
|
28 |
1514 |
successor?
|
- Signatures
- ‘$’–‘$iiii’
- Catchwords
- none.
7 May 1501
Leto, Giulio Pomponio, 1428-1497.
Romanae historiae compendium: ... Per Pomponium Laetum.
[Paris]: Impressum parisiis impensa Ioannis pratensis. Anno M.ccccc. primo. Non. maii [1501].
4°: A–K⁶ K⁸ (K8 blank?).
Printed in Paris for
Jean Ier Du Pré and possibly printed by him or by one of several printers producing small humanistic texts in roman type at this time.
1501
Andrelini, Publio Fausto, 1462-1518.
[Bucolica.]
Bucollici Fausti.
[Paris]: [Colophon:] Impensis Ioannis de prato [pr. by J. Antonius]. Anno Milesimo quingentesimo primo. Parisijs [1501].
4°: a–h⁶.
24 December 1504
[Liturgies. Missals. Salisbury.]
Ad vsum insignis ecclesiae Sarum missale.
[Paris]: Anno .M.CCCCC.iiii. ix kl Ianuarii impressum ab ingeniosis impressorie artis successoribus magistri Iohannis de prato. Venales apud bibliopolas in cimyterio sancti Pauli London. inuenientur. [Colophon:] In alma vniuersitate Parisiensi finis impositus est huic missale: arte successorum Iohannis de prato, [1504].
2°: ✠⁶ aa–gg⁸ hh⁶; a–d⁸ e–f⁶; A⁶ B–E⁸ F–G⁶; A–E⁸.
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