Books and Manuscripts

(Lyon): Jean Pivard, 1500. 4to, 10 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (273 x 184 mm). ff. (17), 382, (33); lacking final blank (dd10). With the alphabetical table by Gabriel Brunus at front. Gothic type in two and three columns. Full contemporary brown calf over wooden boards, stamped in blind, contemporary brass ornaments; rebacked; leather dry and cracked; scattered worming on front and rear boards, loss to calf in same; all edges trimmed; extensive contemporary and near-contemporary ownership inscriptions on title-page (many crossed out), circular ink stamp at top of same; scattered marginalia; light to moderate soiling in text margins; scattered light to moderate dampstaining along top and fore-edges; worming at center of ff. CCCXIX-CCCXXXIX; dd4-dd6 at rear sprung; tear in gutter of dd8 at rear; bottom edge of dd9 at rear excised. ISTC ib00604000; GW 4281; Goff B604; Bod-Inc: B-312; Copinger 120

Gabriel Brunus was the guardian of a Franciscan Convent in Venice.

Rare to the market. ISTC locates 21 copies worldwide (including five imperfect ones), and only five in the United States. We can trace only one other copy in recent auction records.