Die fart oder reysz über mere zů dem heylige[n] grab unders herren Ihese cristi gen Iherusalem.

Accession number:

PML 155

Author:

Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497.

Published:

Augsburg : Anton Sorg, 22 April 1488.

Description:

[194] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r): Die fart oder reysz über mere zů dem heylige[n] grab unders herren Ihese cristi gen Iherusalem. Auch zů der heyligen iunckfrawen sant Katherinen grab auf dem berg Synai.
Colophon (leaf C7r): Dises bůch innhaltende die heiligen raisen gen Iherusale[m] zů dem heiligen grab un[d] fürbaβ zů der hochgelobte[n] ju[n]ckfrawen un[d] martrerin sant Katherinen durch Anthonio Sorgen inn der keÿserlichen statt Augspurg gedrucket. Im jar unsers hailβ. Tausent vierhundert und lxxxviii Am abend Jeorii des heiligen martrers Enndet sich hÿe seligklichen.
Printed in Sorg's types 3:140G and 4:109G.
Collation: a⁸ b-z⁸/⁶ A-C⁸: 194 leaves, leaf C8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
8 woodcuts and woodcut initials. Woodcuts are reversed from those in the original Mainz edition (ISTC ib01189000).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.2 x 19.1 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: C8 (blank).

Binding:

Modern half brown goatskin with cloth sides over paper boards (27 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; edges colored yellow.

Variant Title:

Heyligen reyssen gen Jherusalem

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Woodcuts uncolored. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

[possibly John Gennadius (1844-1932); his sale, Sotheby, 28 March 1895, lot 513, to Pickering for £7.15s?]; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1843-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books