Accession number:
PML 20686
Published:
[Cologne] : [Bartholomaeus de Unkel], [about 1482]
Description:
[100] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes:
Title from incipit, leaf a2r.
Imprnit from ISTC.
Printed in Unkel's type 1:103G.
Dated by CIBN (A-699) from the types and style of signatures. GW and Goff date about 1480.
Signatures: a-l⁸ m-n⁶: 100 leaves, leaves a1 and n6 blank; leaf a2 signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21 x 14 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and n6 (blanks).
Binding:
19th-century brown calf with15th-century blind-filleted calf (probably by a Lower Rhine bindery) laid-on as central panels, over wooden boards (22 x 15 cm), sewn on 4 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Renewed paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands. Original vellum quire guards retained. 2 clasps and chain hasp, missing. Manuscript title label, previously covered by horn, records other titles originally bound with this work.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary Lower Rhine (Germany or Netherlands) rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks; primary initial in blue with red penwork decoration. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
The Hague, Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, stamp and deaccessioned duplicate stamp (leaf a2r); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [delta chi], purchased Sept. 1898 (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 1847, to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Nov. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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