Accession number:
PML 112
Published:
Cologne : Johann Landen, [about 1498]
Description:
[66] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts and metalcuts) ; 14 cm (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h10v: Explicit Horologium deuotionis per me Ioh
Printed in Landen's types 1:140G, 2:65G, and 3:95G.
Signatures: a-g⁸ h¹⁰: 66 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
8 woodcuts and 27 metalcuts, with 2 repetitions (Nativity and Crucifixion).
Often found with Gerardus Zutphaniensis (Goff G178) and Meditationes de vita et beneficiis Jesu Christi (Goff M434).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.6 x 9.6 cm.
Binding:
19th-century (probably French?) full black hard-grained goatskin over paper boards (14 x 10 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary Lower Rhine rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and red capital strokes. Wood/metalcuts hand colored, some with silver (oxidized). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified shelfmark, 15th century: Z.lxxvi (leaf a1r); Jean-Patrice-Auguste Madden (1808-1899), bookplate with motto: Torcular calcavi solus (front pastedown), his sale, Versailles, 14-22 April 1890; unidentified numerical stamp: 899127 (front pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in August 1896 by: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and price code: r/-/- (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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