Accession number:
PML 114
Published:
[Cologne] : degruckt Johan koelhoff zo Coelle[n], Anno MCCCCxcviii [1498].
Description:
[90] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 14 cm (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf p5v: Dyt hayt gedruckt Johan koelhoff zo Coelle[n] Anno MCCCCxcviii.
Printed in Koelhoff the Younger's types 4:95G and 5:140G.
Signature: a-p⁶: 90 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
In Ripuarian dialect (GW).
8 woodcuts from 7 blocks, the Crucifixion is repeated once.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.3 x 9.5 cm.
Binding:
19th-century gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (14 x 10 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Zaehnsdorf. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Spiegel off Hantboichelgyn des Cristen mynschen
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication, contemporary alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, red capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Georg Kloss (1787-1854), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 4026; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 180, 8/5/96 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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