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Accession number:
PML 32528.1
Published:
[Kirchheim] : Marcus Reinhart, [1490].
Description:
[147] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 17 cm (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1936.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, printed in red, leaf [1]/1r. [Printer's mark]
Imprint from ISTC. GW dates as not before 1490.
Printed in Reinhart's types 1:81G and 2:ca.60G.
Signatures: [1-2⁸ 3²]; a-b⁸; [²a] c ²b d-g⁸ h⁸(8+1: "sint tua protect[i]one"); A-F⁸: 147 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Woodcuts.
Printed in black and red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 15.7 x 10.5 cm.
Binding:
15th-century Alsace/South German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (17 x 12 cm), sewn on 3 supports, with tools assigned to the Blüte gestielt I bindery (EBDB w003273, active 1489-1511, with some tools shared by the Strasburg bindery Bablus-Rolle I (EBDB w003029, active 1486-1519)); repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain vellum pastedowns; decorative endbands; yellow edges. 1 clasp.
Variant Title:
Horae: ad usum Romanum (Rome)
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: 1 marginal note (leaf C5v). Inscribed on rear pastedown: "principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est" and "principiis obita sero medicina patatior"
Provenance:
Sebald Kremer, perhaps canon at St. Pierre in Strasbourg, inscription: "Ex libris Sebaldj Kremers S. Petrj In. Arg. canonicj," 15th/16th century, (lear [1]/1r); unidentified inscriptions: "O. rbo" (leaf [1]/1r) and "Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est. Anno 1560. Principiis obsta sero medicina paratur" from Horace and Ovid, respectively (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E. Ph. Goldschmidt, Feb. 1936.
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