Accession number:
PML 79148
Uniform title:
Somnia Danielis (Continental version).
Published:
[Lyon] : [Guillaume Balsarin], [approximately 1487-1488]
Description:
[10] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Balsarin's type 1:77G.
Signatures: [1¹⁰]: 10 leaves, leaves [1]/1 presumably blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 14.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 (blank) and [1]/10.
Binding:
19th-century half dark green (formerly blue) morocco, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards. Plain brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant Title:
Interpretationes seu somnia Danielis prophete revelata ab angelo missus a deo
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified ownership red, double-ogival (mandorla-shaped) stamp (1 cm) with monogram(?) (front endleaf 2 recto -- perhaps Bellamy Gardner?); unidentified round paper labels, torn away (front cover); Mrs. (Kathleen?) Bellamy Gardner, her sale, Sotheby's, 18 July 1962, lot 650; Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 86, purchased at Sotheby's, July 1962; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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