Incipiu[n]t historie plurimoru[m] s[an]c[t]o[rum] nouiter laboriose collecte [et] p[ro]longate.

Accession number:

PML 79779

Published:

Impresse Louanii : in domo Iohannis de Westfalia, .MCCCClxxxv. in octobri [October 1485].

Description:

[2], iii-CCCv, [2] (with mistakes) leaves ; 28.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 1988.

Notes:

Title from tabula incipit, leaf A1v.
Imprint from colophon, leaf oo8v: Expliciunt hystorie plurimo[rum] s[an]c[t]orum nouiter [et] laboriose ex diusersis libris in unum collecte. impresse Louanii i[n] domo Ioha[n]nis de westfalia Anno d[omi]ni .MCCCClxxxv. in octobri.
Printed in Westfalia's types 1B:89/90G and 2:119G.
Signatures: A-Z aa-nn8 oo¹⁰: 298 leaves, leaves oo9-10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Reprint of the supplement to Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea, Cologne, 1483 (Goff J108) (CIBN).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.3 x 20.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: oo9-10 (blanks). Minimal moisture damage to top edge.

Binding:

18th/19th-century (Belgian?) blind-tooled calf over boards (28.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; marbled edges.

Variant Title:

Historiae plurimorum sanctorum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication predominantly unrealized; one contemporary blue initial (leaf A3r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Charles vander Elst (1904-1982), booklabel (front pastedown); Ader Picard Tajan (Paris), 16 Sept. 1988, lot 191; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Tajan via Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, Sept. 1988.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books