Le Petit Laurens

Le Petit Laurens

Printer in Paris, 1491-1517

Imprimeur, libraire-juré (apparently in succession to René du Hamel, 19 March 1505).

Laurens must have worked solely as a bookseller after about 1502: the Inventaire chronologique list books for c.1501 and c.1502 only. Many of his books are undated. The entries listed here were catalogued as incunables by BMC but have been re-dated to the early sixteenth century on typographical grounds. BMC’s IB.40265 (Ordinaire des crestiens, p.163) has been re-ascribed to Antoine Caillaut (IS001949).

Address

Rue saint Jacques, near Saint Yves, at the sign of the Croix Blanche.

References

Renouard, Répertoire, 242.

Claudin, ii, 117ff.

BMC viii, 160-163.

BnF Data: Le Petit Laurens (imprimeur-libraire, 14..-15..)

Device

Renouard 579, Renouard 580 and Renouard 581, Polain 116 and 117 (not found in the British Library’s 16th-century books)

Types

Name	Size	Dates	Notes
T19	112	1499-1501	BMC’s 112G
T8	210	1491-1501	BMC’s 210G
Rot55	76	1499-1501	BMC’s 76G
B12	84	1501	BMC’s 85B
B7	98	1491-1501	BMC’s 99B

Lombards

10 mm ????-1501

Initials

Size	Dates
75x	1501
60x	1501
20x	1501

Signatures

‘$i-$iiii’; one 8° signed ‘$’ only; a 4° signed ‘$’ (or ‘$i’) and ‘$iii’ only.

Catchwords

none.

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1501

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

[De officiis. French.]

Sensuyt le livre Tulles des offices.

[Paris]: [Colophon:] Imprime a Paris par Le petit Laurens Pour Iehan petit, [1501?].

2°: a–g⁸ h–i⁶ k⁴.

Printed in Paris by Le Petit Laurens for Jean Petit.

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IB.40264 (final gathering mutilated)

1501

Anjou and Maine. Coutumes.

Le coustumier des pays daniou et du maine.

[Paris]: [Colophon:] Imprime a paris par le petit laurens. Pour iehan petit. Et en trouuera on aussi a vendre a angers a la chaussee saint pierre en la maison iehan alexandre librayre de luniuersite dudit angers, [1501].

8°: a b–m⁸ n¹⁰.

Printed in Paris by Le Petit Laurens for Jean Petit and Jean Alexandre in Angers.

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IA.40263 (lacks a1)

1501

[Mystère de la Passion.]

Le mistere de la passion notre seigneur iesucrist.

[Paris]: [Colophon:] Imprimee a paris par le petit laurens pour Iehan petit, [c. 1501].

2°: a–i⁸ k–o⁶; A–N⁸.

Printed in Paris by Le Petit Laurens for Jean Petit.

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IB.40267 (lacks b1, c3, A4, A5)

1501

Badius, Josse, 1462-1535.

[Stultifera navis. French.]

La nef des folles.

[Paris]: Et sont a vendre au pellican deuant sainct yuez a paris [address of the Marnef brothers]. [Colophon:] Imprime nouuellement a paris par petit Laurens. Pour geoffroy de marnef, [c. 1501].

4°: a⁴ b–m⁶ n⁸ (n8 blank?).

Printed in Paris by Le Petit Laurens for Geoffroy de Marnef.

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IA.40269 (lacks n8, blank?)

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