Accession number:
PML 20603
Published:
Patavie impressus : [Johann Petri], Anno dom[in]i [et]cetera .lxxv [1485].
Description:
[174] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes:
Title and imprint from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Printed in Petri's types 1:92G and 2:150G.
Collation: [1⁴ 2-20⁸; 21⁸ 22¹⁰]: 174 leaves, leaf [20]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
150 woodcuts. Woodcut xcvi (Nasturcium) printed upside-down.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 14 cm.
Binding:
Late 16th-century German blind-rolled calf over wooden boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands. 2 clasps, missing.
Variant Title:
Herbarius latinus (with German synonyms)
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (where required). Woodcuts hand colored. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations throughouth, mainly NB notations. With German catalogue description from Oswald Weigel (Leipzig), Botanischer Lagerkatalog, Neue Folge, no. 53 (1892), no. 297 (front pastedown) but not this copy.
Provenance:
Michael Rhasbald, signature "Michaelis Rhasbald 1668" and lower down, in same ink "Margareta" (front endleaf 1 verso); J.B. Holzinger, bookplate (signed by T. Wüst, 1883) (front pastedowns); unidentified English sale catalogue description, no. 7 (rear pastedown); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 203 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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