Accession number:
PML 78753.2
Published:
[Cologne] : [Printer of Dictys (Arnold Ther Hoernen)], [not after 1471]
Description:
[24] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1986.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printed of Dictys's type 1:99G.
The Frankfurt copy has a rubricator's date of 1471.
Collation: [1-3⁸]: 24 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.9 x 13.5 cm.
Binding:
18th/19th-century sprinkled calf over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, captial strokes, and line filler. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Modern manuscript title pages for both parts and contents list at end.
Provenance:
William Salloch (binder and bookdealer), ticket (rear pastedown); Walter Goldwater (1907-1985), bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. on the Harper Fund, Sept. 1986.
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