Accession number:
PML 21991
Published:
[Cologne] : [Printer of Dictys (Arnold Ther Hoernen)], [about 1470]
Description:
[32] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the Dictys's type 1:99G.
Polain dates about 1471.
Collation: [1-4⁸]: 32 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 14 cm.
Binding:
19th-century full brown goatskin over paper boards (21.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by W. Pratt. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: Sermones duo de resurrectione futura mortuorum
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
H. M. W, unidentified armorial with monogram H M W (binding); Sale of Lieut. Martindell and others, Sotheby's London, 4 Feb. 1919, lot 257 to Bernard Quaritch (collation statement by F.S. Ferguson dated 4 Feb. 1919 on rear pastedown) for £3.10; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Inc., 1923.
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