Accession number:
PML 18393
Uniform title:
Gesta Romanorum.
Published:
[Cologne : Printer of the 'Flores Sancti Augustini' (Johann Schilling), for William Caxton', 1472].
Description:
[120] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r).
The printer is tentatively identified as Johann Veldener by S. Corsten, in Journal of the Printing Historical Society 11 (1976/77) pp. 1-18, but as Johann Schilling by Needham, Ars impressoria, pp. 117-22. Dibdin, Aedes Althorpianae, II: 1125 attributed the printing to ter Hoernen.
Printed in type 1:100G attributed to Johann Schilling.
Polain(B) 1647 dates as about 1475.
Collation: [1-12¹⁰]: 120 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [12]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 21.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding:
Modern gilt-tooled full black goatskin over paper boards (30 x 22 cm), by Riviere. Plain paper pastedowns and flyleaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Unrubricated, rubrication unrealized except for two red lombards (leaves [1]/4v-[1]/5r). Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance:
Lübeck, Stadtbibliothek, ink stamp (leaf [1]/2r); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., September 1908.
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