Accession number:
PML 26989
Published:
Basilea : Mihahel cognomine wenszler...Biel fridericus, [not after 1 December 1472]
Description:
[60] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1929.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r.
City and printer's names from verse, leaf [1]/1v.
Printed in Wenssler and Biel's type 1:121G.
Copy at Basel UB purchased 1 December 1472.
Signatures: [1-6¹⁰]: 60 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 30 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
Verse on leaf [1]/1v is one of the earliest testimonies to the invention of printing in Mainz.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 20.3 cm.
Binding:
Modern quarter tan goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (28.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Peter Franck, 1930. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title:
Epistolae
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary Germanic rubrication, red lombards and capital strokes. Annotations: Heavily annotated in a contemporary Germanic hand in the first quire only.
Provenance:
Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, stamps, deaccessioned as a duplicate 1901 (leaf [1]/2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Nov. 1929.
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