Accession number:
PML 79066
Published:
Impressa ... Auguste : per Johannem Froschauer, .Mcccc.xcviij [1498].
Description:
[16] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes:
Title from register caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf c3v: Impressa sunt hec Priuilegia clerico[rum] Auguste per Johanne[m] Froschauer Anno domini .Mcccc.xcviij.
Printed in Froschauer's types 3:92G and 4:130G.
Signatures: a-b⁶ c⁴: 16 leaves, leaf c4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 14 cm.
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: c4 (blank).
Binding:
19th/early 20th-century English half brown goatskin, with mottled paper sides, over paper boards (19.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not realized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript arabic numeral foliation in bottom-center margin of rectos.
Provenance:
British Museum, stamps (leaf a1v (cancelled), c3v "5 AP 66", and front/rear pastedowns (gold crown)) and former shelfmark: IA.6516 (front endleaf 3 verso); Bernard Quaritch, purchased Jan. 1926 for "co/-", collation statement, signed F.W., 19/8/26; Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto), Inc. 4, purchased from Quaritch, 1928, bequeathed to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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