Incunabula. [Le grand coutumier du pays et duché de Normandi - Lot 371

Incunabula. [Le grand coutumier du pays et duché de Normandie très utile et profitable à tous praticiens auquel est le texte d'icelui en françois proportionné à l'équipollent de la glose ordinaire et familliere...] [Paris], [Jean Dupré], [c. 1483]. In-4 of [1] manuscript f. (copy of title), [8] blank f. (with handwritten notation on first "epistola ad juvenes"), 1 bl. f. missing, [8] ff. (of 10, the customary begins on fol. ii ("the directory of this book...") and f. 10 is missing), [322] ff. sign. a-p8 q6 r8 R8 s8 S8 t8 v10 u8 x-z8 Ɔ8 ϥ8~t5 ã6 (of which final bl. f.)aa-hh8 ii10kk8 ll4. I lacks the final 10 ff. (signed mm) relating to treaties of consanguinity. Marbled basane, ornate spine, title page (18th c. binding). Some light rubbing. Very rare incunabula edition of this French coutumier preceded by a directory occupying the 8 introductory leaves (out of 10), with the running title listing the subjects dealt with (cf. table on ff. a1v° and a2r°), and followed by a Latin coutumier of the duchy of Normandy (occupying ff. aa1 to ii10), the "Chartre aux normans" (ff. kk1-kk2), the "taxacion des drois des malefaco[n]s" (f. kk3 r°), the Ordonnances d'echiquier (ff. kk3 v°-kk8v°), the "L'apointeme[n]t fait à Vernon" (f. ll1) and the édit du roy faict à Compiegne (f. ll2-ll4). Marginalia in brown ink. Tears not missing on ff. a1, q6. Slight soiling in places. Old stains on several ff. Ex-libris JM (Polain, livres du Xve s. dans des fonds belges 1932, n°1198).