Dit boeck is ghenomet dat vader boeck.

Accession number:

PML 20957

Author:

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.

Published:

[Zwolle] : Gedruct bi mi Peter van Os, M.cccc ende xc, den eersten dach van April [1 April 1490].

Description:

[5], I-Clx, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf D5v: Hier eyndet dat derde deel va[n] desen boecke van den wo[n]derlijke wercken en[de] goede exempele[n] ed[de] goede leri[n]ghen der heigher vadere[n] so als die heylige leraer Jeronim[us] vut de[n] griecke[n] in de[n] latine ghetoghe[n] heest Ouergheset in goeder usta[n]delre duytscer spraken om salicheit alre goeder kersten me[n]sten. Ghedruct bi mi Peter va[n] os In de[n] iare o[n]s here[n] M.cccc en[de] xc. den eerste[n] dach va[n] den April. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Van Os's type 5:108G.
Signatures: A⁴; a⁸ b-z⁶ A⁴ B-D⁶: 166 leaves, leaf D6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
3 woodcuts: 2 woodcuts from blockbook Biblia pauperum, edition I, leaves .p. and .t. (leaf A1r) and a woodcut Annunciation (leaves a1r-v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25 x 19 cm.

Binding:

16th/17th-century laced limp parchment (25.5 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.

Variant Title:

Dat vader boeck

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary Netherlandish rubrication red lombards, wedge-shaped paragraph marks, and capital strokes; 2 initials in blue with red penwork decoration. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Unidentified inscription: "26 pond 4 3 o[??]," 17th century(?) (leaf D6v).

Provenance:

George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown, and erased notes?), his sale, Sotheby's, part II, 2 Feb. 1914, lot 1194 for £17.0.0 to Bernard Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown), then A Catalogue of Early Printed Books, cat. 353 (May 1919), no. 50*; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1919.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books