Hystori Josaphat und Barlaam.

Accession number:

PML 20610

Uniform title:

Barlaam and Joasaph. German.

Published:

[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], [about 1476]

Description:

[98] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.

Notes:

64 woodcut illustrations. Figures for chapters 16 and 21 exchanged, printed note at chapter 21 states this.
Authorship attributed to Damascenus in text (leaf [1]/2v), but not the Johannes Damascenus from 1st half of 7th century.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10⁸]: 98 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [10]/8 blank.
Library's copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.6 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [10]/8 (blank).
Printed in Zainer's type 2:118dG.
Title from colophon (leaf [10]/8v): Eyn ende hatt das bůch der christenlichen lere die hystori Josaphat und Barlaam genannt...

Binding:

Modern half brown goatskin over paper boards with sides covered in glazed paper (28.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Glazed paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands.

Variant Title:

Barlaam et Josaphat

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red highlights on printed initials and woodcuts, capital strokes and on punctuation, and underlining. Note added by rubricator at chapter 16 that the figure belongs at chapter 21: "dise vigur gehört zu den xxi kapitel und die xvi da heir" (matching printed note stating this at chapter 21). Annotations: No marginal notations. Partially trimmed inscription: "schwarz ga[?]" with red cross in rubricator's ink (leaf [10]/7v). A few woodcuts have minor notations/doodles, ca. 1550 (i.e. leaf [6]/3r). German inscription, 1550: "Ist ain treffenliche, warhafftige hystori. Nutzlich und mit allem vleiss zu lesen [und] (in another hand) wörkh mir Pleistdauff(?)." German bibliographic notations (second front fly leaf recto).

Provenance:

German monastic inscription, unidentified, 1554: "Dass püech gehert de[n] kloster zue deg[??]slee zur 1554" (leaf [1]/1r); shelf mark, unidentified: C.it. N. 170 (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified English auction lot description (second front fly leaf recto); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 243 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear fly leaf) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Inscriptions

Annotations

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Century:

16th century

Department:

Printed Books