Accession number:
PML 128187
Published:
A Paris : Par Jehan Ruelle demourant en la rue Sainct Jacques, a l'enseigne de la queue de Regnard, 1548.
Credit:
Purchased on the Curt Bühler Fund, with contributions by Dr. Otto Schäfer and Otto G. Schäfer in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Morgan Library and the 50th aniversary of the Association of Fellows, 2000.
Description:
[32], 774 p. : ill. ; 13 cm (16mo)
Notes:
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Binding:
16th-century French light brown calf with triple blind fillets around covers, paneled with triple blind fillets with gilt arabesque corner-pieces and a central gilt vignette with the Fugger device, a hand holding a branch surmounted by a bird; four raised and two half bands on spine, with gilt quatrefoils in four compartments and a vellum lettering-piece with the text "Lactance"; yellow edges.
Provenance:
Marcus Fugger (1529-1597), signature: Marx Fugg (front pastedown) and emblem on binding; Oettingen-Wallerstein, stamp (title page), sale: Karl & Faber (Munich), 6-7 Nov. 1933, lot 248; Constantin N. Radoulesco, booklabel (front pastedown) and CR stamps; Otto Schäfer, stamps, his sale: Sotheby's, 27 June 1995, lot 125; Hartung & Hartung, sale 94, lot 121.
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