Research Catalog

Title

Icy est le compost et kale[n]drier des bergiers nouuellement et autreme[n]t compose que nestoit par auant : ou quel sont adioustez plusieurs nouuelletes, comme ceulx qui le verront pourront congnoistre : et enseigne les iours heures et minutes des lunes nouuelles et des eclipses de souleil et de lune : la science salutaire des bergiers que chascun doit sauoir : et que plus est leur compost et kalendrier sur la main en francoys et latin tel quilz parlent entre eulx : larbre des vices, larbre des vertus : et la tour de sapie[n]ce figuree, ensemble la phisique et regime desante diceulx bergiers, quest nothomye et fleubothomye : leur astrologie des signes, estoilles, et planetes, et phizonomye : et plusieurs choses exquises et difficiles a congnoistre : lequel compost et kalendrier touchant les lunes et eclipses est approprie comme doit estre pour le climat de France au iugeme[n]t et congnoissance des bergiers.

Publication

Imprime a Paris : par Maistre Guy Marchant demoura[n]t en Beauregard derriere le college de Nauarre, lan mil vc, le x. iour de Septembre [10 September 1500]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Marchant, Guy
• Petit, Jean, active 1492-1530
• Le Rouge, Pierre, -1493

Description

[184] pages : illustrations; 28 cm (fol.)

Uniform Title

Compost et kalendrier des bergiers.

Alternative Title

• Icy est le compost et kaledrier des bergiers nouuellement et autremet compose que nestoit par auant
• Cy est le compost et kale[n]drier des bergiers
• Kalendrier des bergiers
• Compot et calendrier des bergers
• Compost et calendrier des bergers
• Calendrier des bergers

Subjects

• Incunabula > France > Paris
• Deadly sins in art
• Virtues in art
• Hygiene > Early works to 1800
• Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
• Zodiac in art
• Human anatomy > Early works to 1800
• Vices in art
• French poetry > To 1500
• Woodcuts > France > 15th century
• Calendars > Early works to 1800
• Eclipses > Early works to 1800
• Deadly sins > Early works to 1800
• Fanfare bindings (Binding) > France > 19th century
• Astrology > Early works to 1800
• French language > Middle French, 1300-1600 > Texts
• Almanacs, French > France > Paris > Early works to 1800
• Shepherds in art

Genre/Form

• Incunabula – France – Paris.
• Woodcuts – France – 15th century.
• Fanfare bindings (Binding) – France – 19th century.

Note

• Imprint from colophon, which begins: Finist le compost et kalendrier des bergiers.
• "Lan mil cinq cens est lan que ce present kale[n]drier a este fait en impression et corrige"--Page 146 (signature l1v).
• First published by Guy Marchant, 2 May 1491; see ISTC ic00053800. This is the last and most complete of 7 Marchant editions.
• Printed for Jean Petit; some copies have Petit's instead of Marchant's device on title page.
• Signatures: a-b⁸ c-e⁶ f-g⁸ [superscript pi]h² h⁸ i-m⁶ n⁸. The 2-leaf gathering signed h contains on recto of first leaf the conclusion of the text on leaf g8v; on inside pages is a double-page diagram illustrating the Tour de sapience (size of image: 34 x 25 cm).
• Copy described in Pellechet (Médiathèque Louis Aragon (Le Mans, France)) is incomplete, wanting gathering n; gathering n omitted in Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke collation.
• Includes verse, which is printed in 2 columns. Bastard type (Proctor 8029); 38-40 lines. Gathering b printed in red and black.
• Illustrations: 106 woodcuts and woodcut diagrams of various sizes; includes repeats. Attributed to Pierre Le Rouge by Monceaux (cited below; see also pages 144-147). Attribution disputed by Martin (cited below; see also pages 76-78), who terms them "atelier de Le Rouge." Mostly repeated from earlier editions, some with the addition of ornamental borders. Subjects include the author writing, the shepherd instructing other shepherds, zodiac signs, saints' days, eclipses, human anatomy, the planets personified, celestial phenomena seen by shepherds sleeping in the fields, knights and a woman in combat with a snail, a Moor blowing a horn, and shepherds and others in conversation and alone, as well as Biblical and religious themes, such as the Ten Commandments, the Apostles, the Lord's Prayer, the Ave Maria, the trees of vices and virtues, the Apocalypse, Death in the graveyard, and the torments of sinners guilty of the Seven Deadly Sins in the account of Lazarus. On the motif of combat with a snail, see Lilian M.C. Randall. "The snail in Gothic marginal warfare," in Speculum, v. 37 (1962), pages 358-367.
• Historiated and ornamental borders; three initials, comprising calligraphic "I" in first word of title and historiated initials Y and O from the large alphabet of Gering and Renbolt (see Claudin, v. 1, page 117). Printer's device, with initials G M (Silvestre, L.C. Marques typographiques, no. 39 (showing variant with initials I M)) on title page.
• For detailed contents, see Monceaux; Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Bod-Inc Online). Bod-Inc gives number of woodcuts as 60.

Indexed In (note)

• Incunabula short title catalogue
• Universal short title catalogue
• Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries
• Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum
• Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum
• Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France
• Claudin, A. Histoire de l'imprimerie en France au XVe et au XVIe siècle
• Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
• Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum
• Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum
• Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.)
• Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke
• Monceaux, H. Les Le Rouge de Chablis
• Martin, A. Le livre illustré en France au XVe siècle

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online (Bodleian Library copy) via Digital Bodleian.

Language (note)

• Middle French, with some portions in Latin.

Provenance (note)

• The Bertin-Yéméniz-Double-Montgermont-Rahir copy, with bookplates of Armand Bertin, (Nicolas) Yéméniz, Baron (Lucien) Double and Edouard Rahir. See: La bibliothèque de feu Édouard Rahir, ancien libraire, 2e part., 1931, lot 275.

Binding (note)

• Dark green crushed levant morocco, gilt, in fanfare style, doublé with red morocco, gilt, by Niédrée (signed in upper right corner of front flyleaf); marbled paper endleaves and edges gilt over marbled. In black morocco pull-off case; title on spine of case: Calendrier des bergers.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1500 (Kalendrier)

OCLC

751699790

Title

Icy est le compost et kale[n]drier des bergiers nouuellement et autreme[n]t compose que nestoit par auant : ou quel sont adioustez plusieurs nouuelletes, comme ceulx qui le verront pourront congnoistre : et enseigne les iours heures et minutes des lunes nouuelles et des eclipses de souleil et de lune : la science salutaire des bergiers que chascun doit sauoir : et que plus est leur compost et kalendrier sur la main en francoys et latin tel quilz parlent entre eulx : larbre des vices, larbre des vertus : et la tour de sapie[n]ce figuree, ensemble la phisique et regime desante diceulx bergiers, quest nothomye et fleubothomye : leur astrologie des signes, estoilles, et planetes, et phizonomye : et plusieurs choses exquises et difficiles a congnoistre : lequel compost et kalendrier touchant les lunes et eclipses est approprie comme doit estre pour le climat de France au iugeme[n]t et congnoissance des bergiers.

Publisher

Imprime a Paris : par Maistre Guy Marchant demoura[n]t en Beauregard derriere le college de Nauarre, lan mil vc, le x. iour de Septembre [10 September 1500]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00057000 http://data.cerl.org/istc/ic00057000

Universal short title catalogue, 2030 http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php/record/2030

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C57

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 5589

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5589

Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, 3908

Claudin, A. Histoire de l'imprimerie en France au XVe et au XVIe siècle, v. 1, 366-378, 394-396

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, C-030 http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/record/C-030

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 8029

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. 8, pages 68-69 (IB.39741)

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), v. 2, column 205

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 5914 http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/GW05914.htm

Monceaux, H. Les Le Rouge de Chablis, v. 1, pages 296-307

Martin, A. Le livre illustré en France au XVe siècle, page 144

Additional Formats

Also available online (Bodleian Library copy) via Digital Bodleian.

Language

Middle French, with some portions in Latin.

Binding

Dark green crushed levant morocco, gilt, in fanfare style, doublé with red morocco, gilt, by Niédrée (signed in upper right corner of front flyleaf); marbled paper endleaves and edges gilt over marbled. In black morocco pull-off case; title on spine of case: Calendrier des bergers. NN

Provenance

The Bertin-Yéméniz-Double-Montgermont-Rahir copy, with bookplates of Armand Bertin, (Nicolas) Yéméniz, Baron (Lucien) Double and Edouard Rahir. See: La bibliothèque de feu Édouard Rahir, ancien libraire, 2e part., 1931, lot 275. NN

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy: The gathering with the double-page diagram is misbound following gathering h.

Place of Publication

France Paris.

Added Author

Marchant, Guy, printer.

Petit, Jean, active 1492-1530, publisher.

Le Rouge, Pierre, -1493, illustrator, attributed name.

Niédrée, Jean-Edouard, 1803-1854, binder.

Bertin, Armand, 1801-1854, former owner.

Yemeniz, Nicolas, 1775-1871, former owner.

Double, Lucien, 1848-1895, former owner.

Montgermont, Louis Lebeuf de, 1841-1918, former owner.

Rahir, Edouard, 1862-1924, former owner.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1500 (Kalendrier)