Sand Brandons buch.

Accession number:

PML 20588

Published:

[Augsburg] : [Anton Sorg], [about 1476]

Description:

[20] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

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

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Hie hebt sich an sand Brandons Buch was er wunderes erfaren hat.
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰]: 20 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [2]/10 blank. Variant collation in BMC.
Paper format: Chancery folio
BMC ascribes the translation to Johann Hartlieb. The text is distinct from the Legend of St. Brandan, issued by Sorg with the Historie Herzog Ernst von Bayern.
Woodcuts and printed initials.
Bearer type visible on leaf [2]/2r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [2]/10 (blanks). Several leaves with repairs, including leaf [2]/1 with repaired fore edge.

Binding:

Modern quarter brown goatskin, with linen sides, by Deborah Evetts, 1978.

Variant Title:

Die wunderbare Meerfahrt des hl. Brandan

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1878), Earl of Ashburnham, with shelf mark: 6.B. (front fly leaf verso); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, lot 780; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 96 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear fly leaf) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books