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tic00469300

Text-inc Id:
tic00469300
Bod-inc Id:
C-189
Headings:
Christina La vie de sainte Christine [French verse].
Analysis of content:
  1. a2r La vie de sainte Christine (in verse). Incipit: ‘[O]u nom de dieu victorieux'.
Imprint:
[Paris: Jean Du Pré?, c.1486/7]. 4°. Sheppard leaves unassigned and dates [c.1495?]. Assigned to Jean Du Pré at this date by Denise Hillard (personal communication 6 Sept. 2001); this will appear in the Supplement to CIBN.
Collation:
a b6. Type: 116 G. Calligraphic L at beginning of title, also used in a later state in the Légende dorée printed for Vérard, 20 May 1496 (Claudin II 472). Capital space on a2r. 12 leaves. 24 lines. Type area: 140 ×75 mm. On a2r a woodcut depicting Christina standing between two archers, flanked by two borders; woodcut initials.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00469300 Pr 8481; Sheppard 6563-4. LCN: 14884699
Copies:
  1. C-189(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century calf; marbled pastedowns; the spine gold-tooled. Size: 170 × 123 × 7 mm. Size of leaf: 168 × 110 mm. On a2r a three-line initial is supplied in interlocked red and blue. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce CC 37.