An Unidentified French Incunable: Sir John Mandeville, Le lapidaire en francoys, [Lyon, c. 1495-1496]
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Journal article
Creator (person)
Shaw, David J.
Date published
2012
Abstract
The British Library's copy of the Lapidaire en francoys attributed to Sir John Mandeville, previously dated [c. 1530], can be shown on typographical grounds to be an incunable edition printed in Lyon c. 1495 or 1496. The book is printed with a very peculiar Lyon bastarda type whose printer is tentatively identified as Martin Havard. A census of other early editions of the Lapidaire shows that the newly identified incunable edition is the earliest to survive.
Journal title
Electronic British Library Journal
Volume
2012
Article number
6
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
London, UK
eISSN
1478-0259
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