D[as] guldin spil.

Accession number:

PML 20607

Author:

Ingold, Meister, active 15th century.

Published:

[Augsburg] : Günther Zainer, 1 August 1472.

Description:

[48] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 32 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.

Notes:

Author from explicit (leaf [5]/8r): ...wer d[as] list un[d] hört der besser es und bit got ouch fleissiclichen und ernstlichen fur mich des berger ich ein priester prediger ordens bieβ meister ingold bat dise spil gemacht.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): His hebt sich das bůch an / das man nent d[as] guldin spil / under dem begriffen seind siben spil / durch welche die houbtsund der ouch an der czal siben seynd / kurcz un[d] meisterlich zů bestraffung d[er] ireenden eccla[e]rt werde[n].
Colophon (leaf [5]/8r): Getruckt von ginthero zeiner geborn ausz reutlingen an dem achten tag sant Jacobs des merern / als man zalt von der geburt cristi .M°.cccc°.lxxii°. iar.
Printed in Zainer's type 2:118G.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5⁸]: 48 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
On the author, see Verfasserlexikon IV: 381-84.
12 woodcuts in text.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.8 x 20.3 cm.
PML copy listed under Division A in Checklist.

Binding:

19th century gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (30.5 x 21.5 cm), by J. Mackenzie. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with additional plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Das goldene Spiel.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Henry Huth (1815-1878) and Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, Sotheby's, 15 Nov. 1911, lot 3409; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 238 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear fly leaf) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned July 1919).

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books