Accession number:
PML 95
Published:
[Cologne] : [Nicolaus Götz], [about 1475]
Description:
[6] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Götz's tpe 1:98G.
Collation: [1⁶]: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 13.5 cm.
Binding:
19th-century French quarter red goatskin, with mottled paper sides, over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Lortic (this is not a typical Lortic binding, attribution?). Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: De planctu beatae Mariae
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Earl Waldegrave (perhaps William Waldegrave, 8th earl), armorial bookplate, 19th century (front pastedown); unidentified booklabel with monogram J.D. and motto "Semper audere" (front pastedown); unidentified armorial bookplate with motto "Decus et tutamen," signed "Oblin a Paris" (front endleaf 1 verso); unidentified Anatole Claudin catalogue description, no. 24674, in a binding by Lortic -- this copy? (front endleaf 1 verso); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 69, 12/7/94 and price code: l/l/- (front endleaf 1 verso-2 recto), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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