Accession number:
PML 24777
Published:
[Cologne] : [Johann Guldenschaff], .M.cccc.lxxx. in die Vrbani [25 May 1490].
Description:
[34] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1927.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC. Date from colophon, leaf E3r: Explicit Passio vndecim imiliu[m] [sic] virginu[m]. Sub anno d[ominu]m .M.cccc.lxxx. in die Vrbani.
Printed in Guldenschaff's types 2:150G and 3:80G.
Signatures: A⁶ B⁸ C-D⁶ E⁸: 34 leaves, leaf E8 blank. Typically signed on leaves 1 and 3 as i and ii.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut, leaf d1v.
Blind type impressions on leaves A1 and E8.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.9 x 13.5 cm.
Binding:
20th-century German half parchment, covered in incunable leaves from Koberger German Bible of 1483 (Goff B-632), over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: Historia nova undecim milium virginum
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified (Hirsch?) bookseller's catalogue description, no. 47 (rear endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Emil Hirsch (Munich), July 1927.
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