Margarita poetica.

Accession number:

PML 23552

Author:

Eyb, Albrecht von, 1420-1475.

Published:

[Nuremberg] : Johann Sensenschmidt, 2 December 1472.

Description:

[478] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1926. NNPM

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [4]/2r): Margarita poetica: opus clarissimu[m] foeliciter incipit.
Colophon (leaf [49]/6r): Anno a nativitate domini Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimosecundo die vero secunda Mensis decembris finita est h[a]ec summa Alberti de Eiib: utriusq[ue] Iuris doctoris eximii qu[a]e Margarita po[a]etica dicit[ur]: p[er] industriosum impr[e]ssori[a]e artis Magistru[m] Iohannem sensenschmid civem Nurembergensem cui[us] diligentia[m] imp[re]mendi corrigendiq[ue]: opes ipsu[m] opti[m]e manifestat.
Printed in Sensenschmidt's type 1:114G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-3⁸; 4-17¹⁰ 18-19⁸; 20-35¹⁰; 36-48¹⁰ 49⁶]: 478 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [4]/1, and [35]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 x 21 cm. NNPM
PML copy with leaves [16]/3.6 and 4.5, [42]/4.7 and 5.6, [47]/4.7 and 5.6 bound in reverse. NNPM

Binding:

Contemporary German pigskin with blind filet design and blind-stamped title (abraded) over wooden boards (29 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns; plain endbands with striped cloth covering. Manuscript waste as quire guards. Hole on rear board from former chain attachment. NNPM

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks (C-type with extended upper stroke), and capital strokes. Annotations: Minimal notations in text, mainly manicules. Contemporary roman numeral foliation. Manuscript quire signatures with numerals on rectos and quire number on final verso. NNPM

Provenance:

Nicolas Bernauer (d. 1531), inscription: "Presens liber est Nicolai Pernawer Bacc. Ingoldstaten[sis] quem p[ro] vi f[loreni] Renen[ses] compavit" and a list of titles in Part I, 15th century (front pastedown), Bernauer was a monk at St. Emmeram from at least 1489 (see MBK IV/1, 123-24 and Bischoff, MS II, 134-37); Vienna, Bundesdenkmalamt, 2 ink stamps (front turn-in); Hamilton A. Roberts, of Garth View, Bangor Wales, booklabel (front pastedown) with bibliographic notes and inscriptions (leaf [1]/1r); William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst (1835-1909), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 3 Dec. 1910, lot 337, to Baer for £12.10; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., April 1926. NNPM

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Chaned bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books