Exemplario contra los engaños y peligros del mu[n]do.

Accession number:

PML 669

Author:

Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century.

Published:

Burgos : por maestre Fadrique aleman de Basilea, a .xvi. dias del mes de febrero. Año de nuestra salvacion .Mil.cccc.xc.viii [16 February 1498]

Description:

[1], Fo. II-XCVI leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Xylographic title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf p8r: [Biel's device] Acabo se el excellente libro intitulado Exemplario co[n]tra los engaños [y] peligros del mundo. Empre[n]tado en la muy noble [y] leal ciudad de Burgos por maestre Fadrique aleman de Basilea a .xvi. dias del mes de febrero. Año de nuestra salvacion .Mil.cccc.xc.viii.
Printed in Biel's types 8:110G, 14:78G, and 15:140G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-h⁶ i⁸ k-o⁶ p⁸: 96 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
125 woodcuts, with repetitions, and woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a5, replaced in contemporary manuscript (on paper with similar watermark to rest of work).

Binding:

18th/19th-century laced stiff parchment (28 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands. 2 ties, missing.

Variant Title:

Exemplario contra los engaños y peligros del mundo

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout, in several hands; two at colophon abraded.

Provenance:

William Edward Frere (1811-1880), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 30 Oct. 1897; Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue of Spanish Literature, cat. 202 (Nov. 1900), no. 46 for £84.0.0; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 325, 24/11/1900 and price code: yl/-/- (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books