Accession number:
PML 55
Published:
Strasbourg : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 14 October 1486.
Description:
[38] leaves ; 27 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Imprint from colophon (leaf f5v): "Historia Alexandri magni finit feliciter Impressa Argentine. Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxxvi. Finita i[n] die sancti Calixti pape et marturis."
Printed in types 1:160G, 2**:91G of the eponymous Printer of the 1483 Jordanus of Quedlinburg, now assigned to Georg Husner.
Collation: a⁸ b-f⁶: 38 leaves, leaf f6 blank, leaf [a1] unsigned, a2 signed a1.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.6 x 18.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: f6 (blank).
Binding:
Nineteenth-century full red goatskin with gilt-tooled turn-ins over boards (27 x 19.5 cm), sewn on three supports by Chambolle-Duru. Marbled paper doublures and fly leaves; all edges gilt.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, capital strokes, and underlining; many initials bled. Annotations: "ffl" signed at bottom of colophon.
Provenance:
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his catalogue number and price code erased (first front fly verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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