Accession number:
PML 173
Published:
[Nuremberg] : [Anton Koberger], [not after 1473]
Description:
[94] leaves ; 31 x 22 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf [2]/2r): Incipit libellus de vita & morib[us] ph[ilosoph]o[rum] & poeta[rum]
Dated based on type and paper evidence.
Printed in Koberger's type 2:115G.
Collation: [1⁶ 2-9¹⁰ 10⁸]: 94 leaves, leaves [10]/5-8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 21.5 cm.
Binding:
Modern full brown goatskin with gilt-stamped turn-ins over paper boards (31 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Roger de Coverly. Plain paper pastedowns and paper and vellum fly leaves; decorative endbands; all edges gilt.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: Moderate 15th-/16th-century marginal notations. Contemporary alpha-numeric quire signatures.
Provenance:
Unidentified ink stamp: 1.5 cm with vague clover-leaf swirl, rubbed and faded (leaf [4]/4r); Bernard Quaritch, sale cat. (1887), lot description pasted-in (front pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel and bibliographic notes (front pastedown) and bibliographic description by Sydney Cockerell, laid-in; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code r/wm/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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