Accession number:
PML 27042
Published:
[Westminster] : [William Caxton], [about 1476-1477]
Description:
[18] leaves ; 22 cm (4to in half sheets)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1929.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Hic Incipit Tractatus qui Intitulatur Infancia salvatoris.
Printed in Caxton's type 2:135B.
Dated from type and paper evidence.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰]: 18 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half sheets
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 14 cm.
PML copy was originally part 13 of a Sammelband: manuscript headline, "liber xiii;" remainder of Sammelband unidentified/unknown. Leaf [2]/10 with section of fore edge torn away, repaired.
Binding:
Red morocco gilt-tooled in the Harleian style over paper boards (21.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves.
Variant Title:
Infantia Salvatoris
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombard and headlines. Annotations: Minimal underlining and marginal notations in text; 16th-/17th-century inscription, illegible (leaf [2]/10v).
Provenance:
Formerly part of an unidentified Sammelband: "liber xiii;" [Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st Earl of Oxford, to his son:?]; Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford, the printed books from the Oxford library were sold by his widow, Henrietta Cavendish (1694-1755), in 1743 to: Thomas Osborne, Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae III, no. 6635 and V, no. 7008 and cat. 1748-1749, no. 4176, to Göttingen University, 12 May 1749; Göttingen University Library, ink stamp: "Ex Bibliotheca Acad. Georgiae Augustae" (leaf [1]/1r) and deaccession authorization, 5 July 1929, tipped-in (front fly leaves); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. from Lathrop C. Harper, 1929.
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