Evangelie[n] en[de] epistele[n] vanden ghehelen iare metten sermonen.

Accession number: 
PML 641
Uniform title: 
Bible. Epistles & Gospels. Dutch. 1486.
Published: 
Gheprient tot Delff in Hollant : [Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer], M.CCCC en[de] lxxxvi op sinte A[n]dries avont [29 November 1486].
Description: 
[1], CCxcviii, [7] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from leaf a1r.
Incipit, leaf a2r: Hier beghinne[n] alle die epistole[n] en[de] evangelien mette[n] sermone[n] vanden gheheelen iare die een nade[n] anderen volghe[n]de en[de] oec mede die prophecie[n] ghenomen wt der bibelen volmaectelic en[de] gerechtelic over gheset wt den latine in goeden duytsche ghelikerwijs alsmen houdende is inder heiligher kercken.
Imprint from colophon, leaf K3v: Hier gaen wt die epistele[n] en[de] eva[n]gelie[n] metten sonne[n]daechsen sermoene[n] vande[n] gheheelen iaer en[de] vanden heilighen En[de] sijn gheprient tot delff in holla[n]t Int iaer o[n]s here[n] M.CCCC en[de] lxxxvi op sinte a[n]dries avont.
Printed in Jacobszoon van der Meer's types 1*:104G and 3:220G.
Signatures: a-r [curled-r] [long-s] s-t v u x-z [et] [us] A-I⁸ K¹⁰: 306 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Roman numeral foliation at foot of rectos.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 12.7 cm.

Binding: 
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title: 

Evangelien ende epistelen vanden ghehelen iare metten sermonen

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Dutch (Delft?) rubrication, atlernating red and blue initials and red capital strokes; red and blue penwork border decoration (leaf a2r); woodcuts colored by hand (rubrication same in PML 2562/ChL 1632). Annotations: 1 contemporary marginal notation, abraded (leaf t8v).

Provenance: 
(Previously bound with PML 2562/ChL 1632, Die vier uterste) Walter L. Nash, armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Quarter bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books