Accession number:
PML 16311
Uniform title:
Ars memorativa. German.
Published:
[Augsburg] : [Johann Bämler], [approximately 1480]
Description:
[14] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r: Hie nach volget ein loblich büchlin. Zů latein genant Ars memorativa gar mit vil selczamen schönen figuren von künstlicher gedächtnus, zů hilff und zů auffenthaltung eins ÿeden menschen natürlicher gedächnus.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bämler's type 3:119G.
Collation: [1⁶ 2⁸]: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
14 woodcuts and 1 printed initial.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 15.4 cm.
Binding:
Modern full brown goatskin voer paper boards (20 x 16 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Chambolle-Duru. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Clarence S. Bemens, bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Oct. 1909.
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