[Letter announcing excommunication of Matthäus Schlick and his followers].

Accession number: 
PML 78467
Author: 
Ernst, Duke of Saxony, Archbishop of Magdeburg, 1464-1513.
Published: 
[Leipzig] : [Conrad Kachelofen], [after 1 January 1486]
Description: 
[1] leaf : illustrated (woodcut) ; 28 cm (broadside)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the L.C. Harper Fund in memory of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Printer from ISTC/GW.
Printed in Kachelofen's type 1:80G.
1 leaf, printed on one side only.
Paper format: Chancery half-sheet.
Woodcut notarial mark of Johannes Lintz.
An unrecorded German version of GW 9383 (Latin).
PML copy is two fragments providing 90 (of about 145) lines, trimmed at top and right side. Includes notarial mark (ISTC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 21.5 and 28 x 23.5 cm.

Binding: 
Two fragments tipped to modern paper and bound in a portfolio.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Unrubricated, no rubrication required. Annotations: Modern dealer/collector notes in pencil.

Provenance: 
Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl, of Achstetten (d. ca. 1960?); his auction, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 55; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Bloomsbury via L.C. Harper in memory of Curt F. Bühler, Nov. 1985.
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