¶ Rudimentum novitiorum (1488–89)

May 3, 2016

1488, 1489

Rudimentum novitiorum. 2 vols. Paris: Pierre Le Rouge for Vincent Commin, 1488–89.

Illustrated. The French title is La Mer des histoires.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 790 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £30). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 5.f.1 (SR)).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 16b, no. 208 (£20). — ISTC (ir00346000). — — MS catalogue (1), fol. 8 (£8 ). — MS catalogue (2), no. 401 (with two X’s beside the title). — Poynter, no. 513.

Note in MS catalogue (1): imperfect; lacks two pages in vol. 1; vol. 2 has been mended.


Sotheby 1898:

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