Accession number:
PML 2562
Published:
Voleynt te Delff in Hollant : [Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer], .M.CCCC. ende lxxxvi. opten xxv. dach. van Merte [25 March 1486].
Description:
[58] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h5v: Voleynt te delff in hollant. Iut iaer ons heren .M.CCCC. ende lxxxvi. opten xxv. dach. van Merte ter eren gods ende maria sÿnre liever moeder.
Printed in Jacobszoon van der Meer's types 1*:104G and 2:150G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e-f⁶ g⁸ h⁶: 58 leaves, leaf h6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
5 woodcuts, 2 woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 12.7 cm.
Binding:
Modern quarter black goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (20 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title:
De vier uitersten
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary Dutch (Delft?) rubrication, atlernating red and blue initials and red capital strokes; woodcuts colored by hand (rubrication same in PML 641/ChL 1633). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
(Previously bound with PML 641/ChL 1633, Epistelen ende Evangelien) Walter L. Nash, armorial bookplate (in PML 641); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (in PML 641); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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