Die neẅ Ee unnd das passional von Ihesu.

Accession number: 
PML 20593
Uniform title: 
Ehe.
Published: 
Augsburg : Anton Sorg, 7 October 1476.
Description: 
[156] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): Hie hebt sich an die neẅ Ee unnd das passional von Ihesu und Marie leben gancz und gar gerecht als uns die lerer haben geschriben die hernach genant werden.
Colophon (leaf [17]/6r): Diβs bůchlin (von der kindheyt und dem leyde[n] unsers herren Ihesu [christ]i: auch von dem leben Marie seiner lieben můter: mit sampt der legend von den heyligen drey künigen) hat getrukt Anthonius Sorg burger zů Augspurg. und hat d[em] gee[n]det an montag nach sant Franciscen tag/ des iars da man zalt von [christ]i gepurt tausent vierhundert un[d] sechsundsybenczig iare.
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G.
Collation: [1²; 2-4¹⁰ 5¹⁰(9+1 schen vater) 6-12¹⁰ 13⁶; 14¹⁰(6+1 heiβ balthasar) 15-16¹⁰ 17⁶]: 156 leaves. Variant collation in GW.
Paper format: Chancery folio
75 woodcuts and printed initials.
Many leaves with bearer type visible, including final leaf (leaf [17]/6r) with blind impression of a woodcut from Sorg's 1476 Spiegel menschlicher behaltnuss (Schramm IV 166).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.8 x 20.8 cm.

Binding: 
Modern English full brown goatskin over paper boards (32 x 22.5 cm), sewn on 6 bands. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant Title: 

Die Neue Ehe und das Passional von Jesu

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: Minimal notations in text. Text abraded and corrected (leaf [10]/8r).

Provenance: 
Alois Tilnhoesel, of Moosdorf (Upper Austria), inscription: Aloisii Tilnhoesel(?) Parochi in Moosdorf; Amandus Ruepp, inscription: Pertinet ad P. Amandum Ruepp, OP, A[nno] 179[1?] (see also PML 41416); [Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), Incunabula Typographica (1906), lot 589?]; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 122 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased in Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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