Accession number:
PML 20963
Published:
[Strasbourg] : [Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger?], [after 1500?]
Description:
[32] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Assigned doubtfully to Strassburg in GW, BMC treats as Germany, unassigned. Proctor assigned doubtfully to Speyer.
Printed in Grüninger's types 5*:93G mixed with 11*:92G and 18:82G.
Signatures: a⁶ [b⁶] c-d⁸ e⁴: 32 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 14 cm.
Binding:
Late 19th/early 20th-century full brown calf over paper boards (20 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative (stuck-on) endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Ex divina philosophorum academia secundum nature vires ad extra chyromantitio diligentissime collectum
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified ownership inscriptions (partially legible under U): "Ex libris Urbain a Tre[?]oach a calend. Janu. 1556 pass[??]" and below "Liberalitatis R[?]imi M[???] Gorlisb. Ar[??]flaminis 1553" (leaf a1r); Munich, Hofbibliothek, “Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis” stamp and duplicate stamp (leaves a2r and e4v); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [gamma eta] (front endleaf 2 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part II, 2 Feb. 1914, lot 941, for £7.10.0 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown); Bernard Quaritch, Inc., cat. 353 (1919), no. 68, to: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased in 1919.
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