Accession number:
PML 31
Published:
[Mainz] : [Peter Schoeffer], [not after 1490]
Description:
[40] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Schoeffer's types 3:91G and 7:149G.
The Frankfurt copy has an owner's note of 1490.
Signatures: a-e⁸: 40 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.5 x 14 cm.
Binding:
19th-century English gilt-tooled dark blue morocco over paper boards (19 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Zaehnsdorf. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
De conceptione virginis Mariae
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Sotheby's London, Catalogue of a portion of the library of a collector in failing health, 19 March 1896, lot 48, to Ellis for £7.7; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 234, 18/11/96 and price code: y/wl/- (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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