[Malleus maleficarum].

Accession number:

PML 23774

Author:

Institoris, Heinrich, 1430-1505.

Published:

[Speyer] : [Peter Drach], [before 15 April 1487]

Description:

[130] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1926.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Explicit (leaf q9v): Sit laus deo. exterminiu[m] heresis. pax vivis. requies eterna defunctis. Amen.
Printed in Drach's type 11:90G.
Proctor assigned to Prüss at Strassburg. Copies in Washington, Paris, Bonn, Darmstadt, Frankfurt-am-Main, Freiburg, Giessen, and Hannover are prefixed by 3 leaves, apparently designed for the book and printed by Schoeffer, containing Innocent VIII's bull against heresy (9 Dec. 1484) and the approbation of the University of Cologne (19 May 1487); cf. F.R. Goff, in Libri 13 (1963-64) pp. 137-41. An entry in Drach's account book indicates that the book was in print prior to 15 April 1487 (Goff).
Collation: a-p⁸ q¹⁰: 130 leaves, leaf q10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.6 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: q10 (blank).

Binding:

19th-century half parchment with marbled paper sides over paper boards (28.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards and capital strokes. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations.

Provenance:

Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., August 1926.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula